This web page is generated from an IMDB data set available on Kaggle:

https://www.kaggle.com/stefanoleone992/imdb-extensive-dataset

For each year, I listed movies that modern audiences have found relevant or “good” as defined by the ratings recorded in the IMDB rating system.

Important personalities in the Film Noir movement are listed in bold text.

List of actors taken from:

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls076105318/

List of Directors taken from:

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050219071/

To establish some context for the era itself, here is a chart which shows how modern audiences view the quality of the films produced during the era. The films are grouped by the season in which they were released.

Top 20

Most Highly Rated Film Noir Productions

Title Year Country Ave. Score No. Votes User Reviews Critic Reviews
1 Sunset Blvd. 1950 USA 8.4 195789 615 178
2 Double Indemnity 1944 USA 8.3 139564 397 147
3 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 USA 8.2 11390 402 47
4 The Third Man 1949 UK 8.1 155228 475 252
5 Ace in the Hole 1951 USA 8.1 30541 182 115
6 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 USA 8.1 27248 155 131
7 The Maltese Falcon 1941 USA 8.0 146815 416 134
8 Touch of Evil 1958 USA 8.0 96864 321 115
9 The Night of the Hunter 1955 USA 8.0 80215 453 211
10 The Killing 1956 USA 8.0 79652 400 150
11 Laura 1944 USA 8.0 41682 285 123
12 Out of the Past 1947 USA 8.0 31759 238 145
13 In a Lonely Place 1950 USA 8.0 25368 183 109
14 The Big Heat 1953 USA 8.0 22911 159 88
15 Mildred Pierce 1945 USA 8.0 22055 363 110
16 The Roaring Twenties 1939 USA 8.0 12461 99 50
17 Strangers on a Train 1951 USA 7.9 121052 327 122
18 Notorious 1946 USA 7.9 90400 348 145
19 The Big Sleep 1946 USA 7.9 77516 284 114
20 The Lost Weekend 1945 USA 7.9 32799 164 116

Most Expensive Film Noir Productions

Title Year Country Ave. Score No. Votes Budget
1 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 USA 8.1 27248 $3,400,000
2 Possessed 1947 USA 7.2 4433 $2,592,000
3 Malaya 1949 USA 6.6 1078 $2,396,000
4 The Desperate Hours 1955 USA 7.5 8617 $2,388,000
5 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 USA 7.6 26017 $2,300,000
6 Notorious 1946 USA 7.9 90400 $2,000,000
7 To the Ends of the Earth 1948 USA 7.0 628 $2,000,000
8 Not as a Stranger 1955 USA 6.7 1645 $2,000,000
9 The Bribe 1949 USA 6.6 1567 $1,984,000
10 High Wall 1947 USA 7.0 1401 $1,844,000
11 The Unfaithful 1947 USA 6.8 982 $1,822,000
12 Ace in the Hole 1951 USA 8.1 30541 $1,800,000
13 Party Girl 1958 USA 7.0 2663 $1,758,000
14 Sunset Blvd. 1950 USA 8.4 195789 $1,752,000
15 Spellbound 1945 USA 7.6 42377 $1,696,377
16 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 USA 7.5 18084 $1,683,000
17 Undercurrent 1946 USA 6.5 2683 $1,644,000
18 Caught 1949 USA 7.0 3126 $1,574,422
19 Flamingo Road 1949 USA 7.0 2327 $1,528,000
20 Tip on a Dead Jockey 1957 USA 6.2 286 $1,464,000

Most Remarkable Film Noir Productions: Everyone agrees you should see…

Title Year Country Ave. Score No. Votes User Reviews Critic Reviews
1 Sunset Blvd. 1950 USA 8.4 195789 615 178
2 Double Indemnity 1944 USA 8.3 139564 397 147
3 The Third Man 1949 UK 8.1 155228 475 252
4 The Maltese Falcon 1941 USA 8.0 146815 416 134
5 Touch of Evil 1958 USA 8.0 96864 321 115
6 The Night of the Hunter 1955 USA 8.0 80215 453 211
7 The Killing 1956 USA 8.0 79652 400 150
8 Laura 1944 USA 8.0 41682 285 123
9 Out of the Past 1947 USA 8.0 31759 238 145
10 In a Lonely Place 1950 USA 8.0 25368 183 109
11 Strangers on a Train 1951 USA 7.9 121052 327 122
12 Notorious 1946 USA 7.9 90400 348 145
13 The Big Sleep 1946 USA 7.9 77516 284 114

Most prolific Directors sorted by the average rating of their movies

Director Noir Films Noir Score Ave. Score Noir Votes All Votes
1 Fritz Lang 17 7.2 7.1 114340 470459
2 Anthony Mann 11 6.8 6.8 22814 153545
3 William Castle 11 6.5 6.0 4586 62903
4 Michael Curtiz 9 7.3 6.6 57713 802610
5 Robert Siodmak 9 7.0 6.6 33938 65524
6 Joseph Pevney 8 6.6 6.4 3261 17388
7 Nicholas Ray 7 7.1 6.8 47278 178972
8 Henry Hathaway 7 7.0 6.6 33155 183960
9 Joseph H. Lewis 7 6.8 6.2 22969 32769
10 Richard Fleischer 7 6.8 6.4 16646 336502
11 Phil Karlson 7 6.8 6.2 13962 44249
12 Don Siegel 7 6.8 6.7 12345 433514
13 Vincent Sherman 7 6.8 6.7 8479 41122
14 John Farrow 7 6.7 6.4 16217 70959
15 Lewis Allen 7 6.5 6.4 11410 23382
16 Andrew L. Stone 7 6.5 6.3 5665 13055
17 Douglas Sirk 6 6.8 6.7 8491 70816
18 Stuart Heisler 6 6.6 6.4 11286 25609
19 Ted Tetzlaff 6 6.5 6.3 5593 7828
20 Lewis Seiler 6 6.5 6.3 3612 17257
21 Alfred Hitchcock 5 7.6 7.0 291005 3225564
22 Otto Preminger 5 7.1 6.6 57055 191754
23 Jean Negulesco 5 7.1 6.5 10613 76539
24 Jacques Tourneur 5 6.9 6.5 39747 109276
25 Edgar G. Ulmer 5 6.7 5.9 18538 40173
26 Rudolph Maté 5 6.6 6.4 15113 42139
27 John Sturges 5 6.6 6.5 6140 437856
28 Felix E. Feist 5 6.6 6.1 4389 9338
29 Gordon Douglas 5 6.6 6.2 3762 79383
30 Maxwell Shane 5 6.6 6.6 3540 3540
31 John Reinhardt 5 6.6 6.2 827 1162
32 Robert Stevenson 5 6.5 6.6 4482 266172
33 Hugo Haas 5 6.4 6.5 990 2238
34 Joseph M. Newman 5 6.2 6.0 2457 18955
35 Richard Thorpe 5 6.1 6.2 2680 79977
36 Lew Landers 5 6.0 5.8 2090 17724
37 William Berke 5 6.0 5.9 1352 7972

Most prolific Actors sorted by the average rating of their movies

Actor Noir Films Noir Score Ave. Score Noir Votes All Votes
1 Humphrey Bogart 28 7.2 6.9 411503 1348040
2 Raymond Burr 19 6.5 6.2 28755 567642
3 Richard Conte 18 6.8 6.5 38731 1670718
4 Dan Duryea 17 6.9 6.7 48003 142254
5 Edward G. Robinson 17 7.0 6.6 208248 464888
6 Harry Shannon 17 6.8 6.5 53687 588696
7 Steven Geray 17 6.9 6.5 113892 183779
8 Elisha Cook Jr.  15 7.0 6.5 331790 661348
9 Ida Lupino 15 6.8 6.5 35588 83877
10 George Raft 15 6.5 6.3 22196 330458
11 Charles McGraw 14 7.0 6.6 42110 464468
12 Barry Kelley 14 6.8 6.5 42624 169896
13 Audrey Totter 14 6.8 6.4 40439 48507
14 John Litel 14 6.7 6.3 21543 127721
15 Regis Toomey 14 6.9 6.3 137855 294989
16 Edmond O’Brien 13 6.8 6.6 41527 321581
17 Jan Sterling 13 6.8 6.6 51039 74490
18 Paul Stewart 13 6.7 6.6 34452 547323
19 Robert Ryan 13 6.9 6.6 41842 305108
20 Don Beddoe 13 6.9 6.5 102886 147621
21 Jonathan Hale 13 6.8 6.5 144456 222222
22 Zachary Scott 13 6.8 6.5 35143 47553
23 Robert Mitchum 13 7.0 6.4 142757 710573
24 Ted de Corsia 13 7.0 6.4 135093 225488
25 Barbara Stanwyck 12 7.0 6.7 176950 330108
26 John McIntire 12 6.9 6.7 40318 935061
27 Lee J. Cobb 12 6.6 6.7 27125 1293014
28 Harry Morgan 12 6.9 6.5 18375 314250
29 Henry O’Neill 12 6.9 6.5 21920 140542
30 Jerome Cowan 12 6.7 6.5 161305 287902
31 Wallace Ford 12 7.0 6.5 70581 293753
32 Hugh Sanders 12 6.6 6.4 8850 43558
33 Joe Sawyer 12 6.9 6.4 142497 205566
34 Mike Mazurki 12 6.7 6.4 33313 321198
35 Stephen McNally 12 6.5 6.4 11374 55088
36 Whit Bissell 12 6.9 6.4 35349 275698
37 Barry Sullivan 12 6.6 6.3 11226 99731
38 Marc Lawrence 12 6.7 6.3 43222 607253
39 Roy Roberts 12 6.6 6.3 24848 90311
40 John Hoyt 12 6.8 6.2 21701 94637

Films by Year

1937

In 1937, “The Life of Emile Zola” (1937) won Best Picture at the 10th annual Academy Awards. The works of Emile Zola feature prominantly in the French style of film making known as “poetic realism”, though he himself was of the literary school of “naturalism”. 1937 was also the year that “Pépé le Moko” was released in France, though it was re-released in 1941 to an American audience. This film seems particularly significant not only in it’s noir-like themes, but it also clearly sets the stage for “Casablanca”. Therefore, to establish some context for the era in which Film Noir thrived, I’ve included the top-rated films from 1937 to 1939 for reference.

Top 10 Films of any Genre

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Captains Courageous 1937 117 USA Adventure
Drama
Family
Victor Fleming Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Charley Grapewin 8.0 8515
2 The Awful Truth 1937 90 USA Comedy
Romance
Leo McCarey Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D’Arcy, Cecil Cunningham 7.7 17167
3 Lost Horizon 1937 132 USA Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
Frank Capra Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell 7.7 11768
4 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 101 USA Adventure
Drama
Romance
John Cromwell
W.S. Van Dyke
Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor 7.7 4085
5 A Day at the Races 1937 111 USA Comedy
Musical
Sport
Sam Wood Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O’Sullivan 7.6 12758
6 Easy Living 1937 88 USA Comedy
Romance
Mitchell Leisen Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni, Mary Nash 7.6 2946
7 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 83 USA Animation
Family
Fantasy
William Cottrell
David Hand
Roy Atwell, Stuart Buchanan, Adriana Caselotti, Eddie Collins, Pinto Colvig 7.6 177157
8 The Good Earth 1937 138 USA Drama
Romance
Sidney Franklin
Victor Fleming
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch, Charley Grapewin 7.5 4420
9 Shall We Dance 1937 109 USA Comedy
Musical
Romance
Mark Sandrich Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Jerome Cowan 7.5 6414
10 History Is Made at Night 1937 97 USA Drama
Romance
Frank Borzage Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff 7.4 1421

1938

Top 10 Films of any Genre

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 102 USA Action
Adventure
Romance
Michael Curtiz
William Keighley
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles 7.9 46382
2 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 97 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Michael Curtiz James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft 7.9 19434
3 Bringing Up Baby 1938 102 USA Comedy
Family
Romance
Howard Hawks Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald 7.9 53931
4 You Can’t Take It with You 1938 126 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
Frank Capra Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer 7.9 22818
5 Holiday 1938 95 USA Comedy
Romance
George Cukor Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton 7.8 13952
6 Block-Heads 1938 57 USA Comedy
War
John G. Blystone Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell, Billy Gilbert 7.6 3403
7 A Christmas Carol 1938 69 USA Drama
Family
Fantasy
Edwin L. Marin Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn, Barry MacKay 7.5 5902
8 The Dawn Patrol 1938 103 USA War
Drama
Edmund Goulding Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper 7.5 2649
9 Jezebel 1938 104 USA Drama
Romance
William Wyler Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp 7.5 11729
10 Marie Antoinette 1938 149 USA Biography
Drama
History
W.S. Van Dyke
Julien Duvivier
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise 7.4 2641

1939

Top 10 Films of any Genre

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Gone with the Wind 1939 238 USA Drama
History
Romance
Victor Fleming
George Cukor
Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O’Neil, Vivien Leigh, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford 8.1 283975
2 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 129 USA Comedy
Drama
Frank Capra Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee 8.1 104547
3 The Roaring Twenties 1939 106 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Raoul Walsh James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn 8.0 12461
4 The Wizard of Oz 1939 102 USA Adventure
Family
Fantasy
Victor Fleming
George Cukor
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley 8.0 366293
5 Midnight 1939 94 USA Comedy
Romance
Mitchell Leisen Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor 7.9 4308
6 Ninotchka 1939 110 USA Comedy
Romance
Ernst Lubitsch Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman 7.9 18470
7 Of Mice and Men 1939 106 USA Drama Lewis Milestone Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen 7.9 5337
8 Stagecoach 1939 96 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
John Ford Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell 7.9 42250
9 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 117 USA Drama
Romance
William Dieterle Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O’Hara, Edmond O’Brien 7.8 10155
10 The Women 1939 133 USA Comedy
Drama
George Cukor Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard 7.8 12306

1940

1940 is sometimes considered the beginning of “classic” Film Noir, so I began listing the Noir productions from that year.

Western Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Lo chiamavano Trinità… 1970 115 Italy Comedy
Western
Enzo Barboni Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias, Dan Sturkie, Gisela Hahn 7.5 19230
Vamos a matar, compañeros 1970 115 Italy
Spain
West Germany
Action
Comedy
Western
Sergio Corbucci Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Fernando Rey, Iris Berben, José Bódalo 7.4 3841
El Topo 1970 125 Mexico Drama
Western
Alejandro Jodorowsky Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau, José Luis Fernández 7.4 24798
Monte Walsh 1970 106 USA Western William A. Fraker Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Mitchell Ryan, Jim Davis 7.1 2364
There Was a Crooked Man… 1970 126 USA Comedy
Western
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith 7.0 4037
The Cheyenne Social Club 1970 103 USA Comedy
Romance
Western
Gene Kelly James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon, Elaine Devry 6.9 3967
Chisum 1970 111 USA Biography
Western
Andrew V. McLaglen John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett 6.9 8766
A Man Called Horse 1970 114 USA
Mexico
Adventure
Drama
Western
Elliot Silverstein Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou, Corinna Tsopei 6.9 7955
Soldier Blue 1970 115 USA Western Ralph Nelson Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson, Jorge Rivero 6.9 4816
O Astrapogiannos 1970 116 Greece Adventure
Drama
Western
Nikos Tzimas Nikos Kourkoulos, Niki Triantafillidi, Giannis Argyris, Spyros Kalogirou, Eleni Zafeiriou 6.9 239
Buon funerale amigos!… paga Sartana 1970 91 Italy
Spain
Western Giuliano Carnimeo Gianni Garko, Antonio Vilar, Daniela Giordano, Ivano Staccioli, Helga Liné 6.8 588
E Dio disse a Caino… 1970 109 Italy
West Germany
Horror
Western
Antonio Margheriti Klaus Kinski, Peter Carsten, Marcella Michelangeli, Antonio Cantafora, Giuliano Raffaelli 6.7 902
Deadlock 1970 85 West Germany Thriller
Western
Roland Klick Mario Adorf, Anthony Dawson, Marquard Bohm, Mascha Rabben, Siegurd Fitzek 6.7 876
Una nuvola di polvere… un grido di morte… arriva Sartana 1970 99 Italy
Spain
Western Giuliano Carnimeo Gianni Garko, Nieves Navarro, Massimo Serato, Piero Lulli, Bruno Corazzari 6.6 688
Un uomo chiamato Apocalisse Joe 1970 90 Italy
Spain
Action
Romance
Western
Leopoldo Savona Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, Mary Paz Pondal, Fernando Cerulli, Veronika Korosec 6.5 201
Barquero 1970 115 USA Western Gordon Douglas Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker, Kerwin Mathews, Mariette Hartley 6.4 1382
The Deserter 1970 100 Italy
Yugoslavia
USA
Western Burt Kennedy
Niksa Fulgosi
Bekim Fehmiu, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors, Ricardo Montalban, Ian Bannen 6.4 369
The Traveling Executioner 1970 95 USA Comedy
Drama
Western
Jack Smight Stacy Keach, Marianna Hill, Bud Cort, Graham Jarvis, James Sloyan 6.3 288
Speedy Gonzales - noin 7 veljeksen poika 1970 85 Finland Comedy
Western
Ere Kokkonen Spede Pasanen, Tarja Markus, Olavi Ahonen, Esko Salminen, Ville-Veikko Salminen 6.3 473
C’è Sartana… vendi la pistola e comprati la bara! 1970 93 Italy Western Giuliano Carnimeo George Hilton, Charles Southwood, Erika Blanc, Piero Lulli, Linda Sini 6.2 680
Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County 1970 99 USA Comedy
Western
Anton Leader
Ranald MacDougall
Dan Blocker, Nanette Fabray, Jim Backus, Wally Cox, Jack Elam 6.2 400
The McMasters 1970 90 USA Action
Drama
Western
Alf Kjellin Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine, Nancy Kwan, Jack Palance 6.0 247
Ciakmull - L’uomo della vendetta 1970 95 Italy Western Enzo Barboni Leonard Mann, Woody Strode, Peter Martell, George Eastman, Helmuth Schneider 6.0 330
Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di… 1970 104 Italy
Spain
Action
War
Western
Gianfranco Parolini Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Ignazio Spalla, Gérard Herter, Sal Borgese 6.0 1730
A Man Called Sledge 1970 93 Italy
USA
Western Vic Morrow
Giorgio Gentili
James Garner, Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins, John Marley, Laura Antonelli 5.9 1092
La collera del vento 1970 105 Italy
Spain
Drama
Western
Mario Camus Terence Hill, Maria Grazia Buccella, Mario Pardo, Máximo Valverde, Carlo Alberto Cortina 5.9 472
Arriva Sabata! 1970 87 Spain
Italy
Comedy
Western
Tulio Demicheli Anthony Steffen, Peter Lee Lawrence, Eduardo Fajardo, Alfredo Mayo, Luis Induni 5.8 154
King of the Grizzlies 1970 93 USA
Canada
Western
Family
Ron Kelly John Yesno, Chris Wiggins, Hugh Webster, Jack Van Evera, Wahb 5.8 142
Un par de asesinos 1970 95 Spain
Italy
Comedy
Crime
Western
Rafael Romero Marchent Gianni Garko, Guglielmo Spoletini, María Silva, Andrés Mejuto, Raf Baldassarre 5.8 158
Shango, la pistola infallibile 1970 96 Italy Action
Drama
Western
Edoardo Mulargia Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, Maurice Poli, Barbara Nelli, Valerio Fioravanti 5.8 163
Arizona si scatenò… e li fece fuori tutti! 1970 90 Italy
Spain
Western Sergio Martino Anthony Steffen, Marcella Michelangeli, Aldo Sambrell, Rosalba Neri, Roberto Camardiel 5.7 233
Cannon for Cordoba 1970 104 USA Action
Romance
Western
Paul Wendkos George Peppard, Giovanna Ralli, Raf Vallone, Pete Duel, Don Gordon 5.7 511
Flap 1970 106 USA Comedy
Drama
Western
Carol Reed Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters, Victor Jory 5.7 452
Django sfida Sartana 1970 85 Italy Western Pasquale Squitieri George Ardisson, Tony Kendall, José Torres, Bernard Farber, Adler Gray 5.4 225
Land Raiders 1970 101 USA Action
Western
Nathan Juran Telly Savalas, George Maharis, Arlene Dahl, Janet Landgard, Guy Rolfe 5.3 318
Macho Callahan 1970 99 Mexico
USA
Western Bernard L. Kowalski David Janssen, Jean Seberg, Lee J. Cobb, James Booth, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.  5.3 261
Præriens skrappe drenge 1970 99 Denmark Comedy
Western
Carl Ottosen Dirch Passer, Preben Kaas, Paul Hagen, Willy Rathnov, Sisse Reingaard 5.3 349
Dirty Dingus Magee 1970 91 USA Comedy
Romance
Western
Burt Kennedy Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Lois Nettleton, Jack Elam 5.2 786
Reverendo Colt 1970 85 Spain
Italy
Western León Klimovsky Guy Madison, Richard Harrison, Ennio Girolami, María Martín, Germán Cobos 5.2 108
Madron 1970 90 Israel Western Jerry Hopper Richard Boone, Leslie Caron, Gabi Amrani, NA, NA 5.1 244
Quel maledetto giorno d’inverno… Django e Sartana all’ultimo sangue 1970 90 Italy Western Demofilo Fidani Jack Betts, Fabio Testi, Dino Strano, Benito Pacifico, Attilio Dottesio 5.1 274
Inginocchiati straniero… I cadaveri non fanno ombra! 1970 98 Italy Western Demofilo Fidani Jack Betts, Franco Borelli, Benito Pacifico, Attilio Dottesio, Simonetta Vitelli 5.0 130
Arrivano Django e Sartana… è la fine 1970 96 Italy Action
Drama
Western
Demofilo Fidani
Diego Spataro
Jack Betts, Franco Borelli, Gordon Mitchell, Simonetta Vitelli, Celso Faria 4.9 258
Roy Colt & Winchester Jack 1970 85 Italy Comedy
Western
Mario Bava Brett Halsey, Marilù Tolo, Charles Southwood, Teodoro Corrà, Guido Lollobrigida 4.8 485
Sartana nella valle degli avvoltoi 1970 95 Italy Western Roberto Mauri William Berger, Wayde Preston, Aldo Berti, Carlo Giordana, Franco De Rosa 4.7 187
The Animals 1970 86 USA Western Ron Joy Michele Carey, Henry Silva, Keenan Wynn, John Anderson, Joe Turkel 3.6 281
Cry Blood, Apache 1970 82 USA Western Jack Starrett Jody McCrea, Marie Gahva, Dan Kemp, Robert Tessier, Jack Starrett 3.3 446
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 120 USA Drama
Western
Robert Altman Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck 7.7 21506
Giù la testa 1971 157 Italy
Spain
Drama
War
Western
Sergio Leone Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli, Maria Monti, Rik Battaglia 7.6 29314
Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità 1971 117 Italy Comedy
Western
Enzo Barboni Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Yanti Somer, Enzo Tarascio, Harry Carey Jr.  7.3 14027
Big Jake 1971 110 USA Western George Sherman
John Wayne
John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O’Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum 7.2 10996
The Hired Hand 1971 90 USA Drama
Western
Peter Fonda Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden 7.0 2873
Lawman 1971 99 USA Adventure
Western
Michael Winner Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall, Sheree North 7.0 4102
Skin Game 1971 102 USA Comedy
Romance
Western
Paul Bogart
Gordon Douglas
James Garner, Louis Gossett Jr., Susan Clark, Brenda Sykes, Edward Asner 7.0 1455
Anda muchacho, spara! 1971 105 Italy
Spain
Western Aldo Florio Fabio Testi, Charo López, José Calvo, Ben Carra, Romano Puppo 7.0 266
Soleil rouge 1971 112 France
Italy
Spain
Action
Western
Terence Young Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Capucine 6.9 7833
Support Your Local Gunfighter 1971 91 USA Comedy
Romance
Western
Burt Kennedy James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Joan Blondell 6.9 4976
Man in the Wilderness 1971 104 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
Richard C. Sarafian Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, Percy Herbert, Dennis Waterman 6.8 2656
Valdez Is Coming 1971 90 USA Western Edwin Sherin Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher, Richard Jordan 6.8 3339
Hirttämättömät 1971 85 Finland Western
Comedy
Vesa-Matti Loiri
Spede Pasanen
Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Spede Pasanen, Pirjo Laitila, Evita Wager 6.8 644
J W Coop 1971 112 USA Drama
Western
Cliff Robertson Cliff Robertson, Geraldine Page, Cristina Ferrare, R.G. Armstrong, R.L. Armstrong 6.5 426
Whity 1971 95 West Germany Drama
Western
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Ron Randell, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Harry Baer, Ulli Lommel 6.5 968
Wild Rovers 1971 136 USA Western Blake Edwards William Holden, Ryan O’Neal, Karl Malden, Lynn Carlin, Tom Skerritt 6.5 1423
Blindman 1971 105 Italy
USA
Western Ferdinando Baldi Tony Anthony, Ringo Starr, Lloyd Battista, Magda Konopka, Raf Baldassarre 6.4 1066
A Gunfight 1971 89 USA Romance
Western
Lamont Johnson Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander, Karen Black, Dana Elcar 6.4 1122
Hannie Caulder 1971 85 UK Crime
Drama
Western
Burt Kennedy Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, Strother Martin 6.4 2749
Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo 1971 90 Italy Western Giuseppe Vari Klaus Kinski, Victoria Zinny, Paolo Casella, Dino Strano, Antonio La Raina 6.3 594
Billy Jack 1971 114 USA Action
Drama
Western
Tom Laughlin Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat, Victor Izay, Julie Webb 6.3 5434
Gli fumavano le Colt… lo chiamavano Camposanto 1971 94 Italy Western
Comedy
Giuliano Carnimeo Gianni Garko, William Berger, Christopher Chittell, John Fordyce, Ugo Fangareggi 6.3 359
The Hunting Party 1971 111 UK
USA
Action
Drama
Western
Don Medford Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Simon Oakland, Mitchell Ryan 6.3 2472
‘Doc’ 1971 96 USA Western Frank Perry Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin, Michael Witney, Denver John Collins 6.2 1379
Shoot Out 1971 95 USA Western Henry Hathaway Gregory Peck, Patricia Quinn, Robert F. Lyons, Susan Tyrrell, Jeff Corey 6.2 1569
Testa t’ammazzo, croce… sei morto - Mi chiamano Alleluja 1971 94 Italy Comedy
Western
Giuliano Carnimeo George Hilton, Charles Southwood, Agata Flori, Roberto Camardiel, Paolo Gozlino 6.1 326
W Django! 1971 90 Italy Western Edoardo Mulargia Anthony Steffen, Stelio Candelli, Glauco Onorato, Chris Avram, Donato Castellaneta 5.9 419
Osceola 1971 109 East Germany
Bulgaria
Cuba
Western
Drama
Konrad Petzold Gojko Mitic, Horst Schulze, Iurie Darie, Karin Ugowski, Kati Bus 5.9 186
One More Train to Rob 1971 108 USA Comedy
Western
Andrew V. McLaglen George Peppard, Diana Muldaur, John Vernon, France Nuyen, Steve Sandor 5.8 445
Une aventure de Billy le Kid 1971 100 France Western Luc Moullet Jean-Pierre Léaud, Rachel Kesterber, Jean Valmont, Bruno Kresoja, Michel Minaud 5.8 132
È tornato Sabata… hai chiuso un’altra volta! 1971 100 Italy
France
West Germany
Western Gianfranco Parolini Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Giampiero Albertini, Ignazio Spalla, Annabella Incontrera 5.7 1627
Something Big 1971 108 USA Comedy
Western
Andrew V. McLaglen Dean Martin, Brian Keith, Carol White, Honor Blackman, Ben Johnson 5.7 720
Black Killer 1971 93 Italy Crime
Drama
Western
Carlo Croccolo Klaus Kinski, Fred Robsahm, Antonio Cantafora, Marina Malfatti, Enzo Pulcrano 5.6 331
Catlow 1971 101 UK
USA
Comedy
Western
Sam Wanamaker Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy, Daliah Lavi, Jo Ann Pflug 5.6 1007
Black Beauty 1971 106 UK
Spain
West Germany
Drama
Family
Western
James Hill Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence, Uschi Glas, Patrick Mower 5.5 940
Guld til præriens skrappe drenge 1971 101 Denmark Comedy
Western
Finn Karlsson Dirch Passer, Willy Rathnov, Paul Hagen, Preben Kaas, Judy Gringer 5.4 240
Per una bara piena di dollari 1971 91 Italy Western
Action
Demofilo Fidani Jack Betts, Gordon Mitchell, Ray Saunders, Simonetta Vitelli, Benito Pacifico 5.3 325
Les pétroleuses 1971 94 UK
France
Italy
Spain
Action
Comedy
Western
Christian-Jaque
Guy Casaril
Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Michael J. Pollard, Micheline Presle, Marie-Ange Aniès 5.3 1017
Il giorno del giudizio 1971 99 Italy
UK
Western Mario Gariazzo
Robert Paget
Ty Hardin, Rossano Brazzi, Edda Di Benedetto, Craig Hill, Rosalba Neri 5.2 134
Lo chiamavano King 1971 90 Italy Western Giancarlo Romitelli Richard Harrison, Anne Puskin, Goffredo Unger, Lorenzo Fineschi, Lucio Zarini 5.0 274
La vendetta è un piatto che si serve freddo 1971 97 Italy Western Pasquale Squitieri Leonard Mann, Ivan Rassimov, Elizabeth Eversfield, Steffen Zacharias, Klaus Kinski 5.0 232
The Gatling Gun 1971 93 USA Action
Drama
Western
Robert Gordon Guy Stockwell, Robert Fuller, BarBara Luna, Woody Strode, Patrick Wayne 5.0 302
El hombre de Río Malo 1971 92 Spain
Italy
France
Comedy
Romance
Western
Eugenio Martín Lee Van Cleef, James Mason, Gina Lollobrigida, Simón Andreu, Diana Lorys 4.7 691
Giù la testa… hombre 1971 83 Italy Western Demofilo Fidani Jack Betts, Gordon Mitchell, Benito Pacifico, Grazia Giuvi, Giancarlo Prete 4.0 143
Anche per Django le carogne hanno un prezzo 1971 89 Italy Action
Romance
Western
Luigi Batzella Jeff Cameron, John Desmont, Esmeralda Barros, Gengher Gatti, Edilio Kim 3.8 175
Era Sam Wallash!… lo chiamavano… E Così Sia 1971 85 Italy Western Demofilo Fidani Robert Woods, Dino Strano, Benito Pacifico, Amerigo Castrighella, Simonetta Vitelli 3.8 166
Rimase uno solo e fu la morte per tutti! 1971 84 Italy Western Edoardo Mulargia Tony Kendall, James Rogers, Sophia Kammara, Dino Strano, Omero Gargano 3.7 110
The Last Rebel 1971 90 USA Western Larry G. Spangler Joe Namath, Jack Elam, Woody Strode, Ty Hardin, Victoria George 3.1 143
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Nybyggarna 1972 202 Sweden Drama
Western
Jan Troell Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Pierre Lindstedt, Allan Edwall 8.0 3834
Jeremiah Johnson 1972 108 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
Sydney Pollack Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee, Joaquín Martínez 7.6 27959
The Cowboys 1972 134 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
Mark Rydell John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Alfred Barker Jr.  7.4 12832
Agit 1972 82 Turkey Crime
Drama
Western
Yilmaz Güney Yilmaz Güney, Hayati Hamzaoglu, Bilal Inci, Atilla Olgaç, Yusuf Koç 7.2 524
Ulzana’s Raid 1972 103 USA Adventure
Western
Robert Aldrich Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Richard Jaeckel, Joaquín Martínez 7.1 5044
Bad Company 1972 93 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
Robert Benton Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston, John Savage 7.0 3578
The Culpepper Cattle Co.  1972 92 USA
Mexico
Western Dick Richards Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis 7.0 1475
Junior Bonner 1972 100 USA Drama
Western
Sam Peckinpah Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker 6.8 5152
Chato’s Land 1972 100 UK
Spain
USA
Western Michael Winner Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland, Ralph Waite 6.7 4608
Condenados a vivir 1972 90 Spain Crime
Thriller
Western
Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent Robert Hundar, Emma Cohen, Alberto Dalbés, Antonio Iranzo, Manuel Tejada 6.7 979
E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico 1972 125 Italy
France
Action
Comedy
Western
Enzo Barboni Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Yanti Somer, Dominic Barto, Harry Carey Jr.  6.7 2426
Buck and the Preacher 1972 102 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
Sidney Poitier
Joseph Sargent
Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller 6.5 1510
Il grande duello 1972 98 Italy
West Germany
France
Monaco
Western Giancarlo Santi Lee Van Cleef, Alberto Dentice, Jess Hahn, Horst Frank, Klaus Grünberg 6.5 2499
Joe Kidd 1972 88 USA Western John Sturges Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud, Stella Garcia 6.5 16319
Justin Morgan Had a Horse 1972 91 USA Family
Drama
Western
Hollingsworth Morse Don Murray, R.G. Armstrong, Whit Bissell, Gary Crosby, E.W. Firestone 6.5 141
When the Legends Die 1972 107 USA Drama
Western
Stuart Millar Richard Widmark, Frederic Forrest, Luana Anders, Vito Scotti, Herbert Nelson 6.5 424
Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato… Parola di Spirito Santo 1972 94 Spain
Italy
Comedy
Western
Giuliano Carnimeo Gianni Garko, Víctor Israel, Poldo Bendandi, Cris Huerta, George Rigaud 6.4 116
Amico, stammi lontano almeno un palmo 1972 109 Italy
France
Comedy
Western
Michele Lupo Giuliano Gemma, George Eastman, Vittorio Congia, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Luciano Catenacci 6.3 366
The Legend of Nigger Charley 1972 98 USA Western Martin Goldman Fred Williamson, D’Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley, Thomas Anderson, Jerry Gatlin 6.3 317
Dirty Little Billy 1972 93 USA Biography
Western
Stan Dragoti Michael J. Pollard, Richard Evans, Lee Purcell, Charles Aidman, Dran Hamilton 6.2 451
Una ragione per vivere e una per morire 1972 119 Italy
France
West Germany
Spain
Western Tonino Valerii James Coburn, Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer, Georges Géret, Reinhard Kolldehoff 6.2 1651
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid 1972 91 USA Drama
Western
Philip Kaufman Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew, R.G. Armstrong, Dana Elcar 6.1 1890
The Revengers 1972 106 Mexico
USA
Western Daniel Mann William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Roger Hanin, Reinhard Kolldehoff 6.1 889
The Wrath of God 1972 111 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
Ralph Nelson Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth, John Colicos, Victor Buono 6.1 858
The Call of the Wild 1972 105 UK
France
West Germany
Italy
Spain
Adventure
Family
Western
Ken Annakin Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf, George Eastman, Maria Rohm 6.0 1503
Che c’entriamo noi con la rivoluzione? 1972 103 Italy
Spain
Comedy
Western
Adventure
Sergio Corbucci Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio, Riccardo Garrone, Eduardo Fajardo, José Canalejas 6.0 203
Si può fare… amigo 1972 109 Italy
France
Spain
Comedy
Western
Maurizio Lucidi Bud Spencer, Jack Palance, Renato Cestiè, Francisco Rabal, Dany Saval 5.9 1252
Greaser’s Palace 1972 91 USA Comedy
Western
Robert Downey Sr.  Albert Henderson, Michael Sullivan, Luana Anders, George Morgan, Ronald Nealy 5.9 883
La vita, a volte, è molto dura, vero Provvidenza? 1972 90 Italy
France
West Germany
Comedy
Western
Giulio Petroni Tomas Milian, Gregg Palmer, Janet Agren, Dieter Eppler, Stelio Candelli 5.8 195
Cry for Me, Billy 1972 93 USA Crime
Western
Drama
William A. Graham Cliff Potts, Maria Potts, Harry Dean Stanton, Don Wilbanks, Woody Chambliss 5.7 101
The Magnificent Seven Ride! 1972 100 USA Action
Western
George McCowan Lee Van Cleef, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan, Mariette Hartley, Luke Askew 5.7 2498
Il ritorno di Clint il solitario 1972 81 Spain
Italy
Western Alfonso Balcázar George Martin, Marina Malfatti, Klaus Kinski, Daniel Martín, Augusto Pescarini 5.7 294
Pocket Money 1972 102 USA Comedy
Drama
Western
Stuart Rosenberg Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Wayne Rogers, Hector Elizondo 5.5 1408
Tecumseh 1972 109 East Germany Western Hans Kratzert Gojko Mitic, Annekathrin Bürger, Rolf Römer, Leon Niemczyk, Mieczyslaw Kalenik 5.5 151
Molly and Lawless John 1972 98 USA Western Gary Nelson Vera Miles, Sam Elliott, Clu Gulager, John Anderson, Cynthia Myers 5.4 233
Enter the Devil 1972 75 USA Horror
Thriller
Western
Frank Q. Dobbs Joshua Bryant, Irene Kelly, David S. Cass Sr., John Martin, Carle Bensen 5.0 343
Jesse & Lester - Due fratelli in un posto chiamato Trinità 1972 97 Italy Comedy
Western
Renzo Genta
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison, Donald O’Brien, Anna Zinnemann, George Wang, Gino Marturano 4.9 116
Der Schrei der schwarzen Wölfe 1972 89 West Germany Adventure
Western
Harald Reinl Ron Ely, Raimund Harmstorf, Gila von Weitershausen, Arthur Brauss, Angelica Ott 4.7 125
Tedeum 1972 99 Italy
Spain
Action
Comedy
Western
Enzo G. Castellari Jack Palance, Giancarlo Prete, Lionel Stander, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Mabel Karin 4.6 133
The Proud and Damned 1972 92 USA
Colombia
Philippines
Spain
Western Ferde Grofé Jr.  Chuck Connors, Aron Kincaid, Cesar Romero, José Greco, Henry Capps 4.6 300
Trinità e Sartana figli di… 1972 102 Italy Western
Comedy
Mario Siciliano Alberto Dell’Acqua, Harry Baird, Beatrice Pellegrino, Stelio Candelli, Dante Maggio 4.4 176
Alleluja e Sartana figli di… Dio 1972 101 Italy
West Germany
Western Mario Siciliano Ron Ely, Alberto Dell’Acqua, Uschi Glas, Angelica Ott, Ezio Marano 3.7 129
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
High Plains Drifter 1973 105 USA Drama
Mystery
Western
Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging 7.5 48732
Il mio nome è Nessuno 1973 116 Italy
France
West Germany
Comedy
Western
Tonino Valerii Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin, R.G. Armstrong, Karl Braun 7.5 22786
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 122 USA
Mexico
Biography
Drama
Western
Sam Peckinpah James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills 7.3 17724
Cahill U.S. Marshal 1973 103 USA Drama
Western
Andrew V. McLaglen John Wayne, George Kennedy, Gary Grimes, Neville Brand, Clay O’Brien 6.6 5792
Vsadnik bez golovy 1973 100 Soviet Union
Cuba
Adventure
Romance
Western
Vladimir Vaynshtok Lyudmila Saveleva, Eslinda Núñez, Enrique Santisteban, Oleg Vidov, Alejandro Lugo 6.5 247
Oklahoma Crude 1973 108 USA Comedy
Drama
Western
Stanley Kramer George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, William Lucking 6.4 1040
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing 1973 114 USA Romance
Western
Richard C. Sarafian Burt Reynolds, Sarah Miles, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, George Hamilton 6.3 1281
One Little Indian 1973 90 USA Comedy
Family
Western
Bernard McEveety James Garner, Vera Miles, Pat Hingle, Morgan Woodward, John Doucette 6.3 504
Kid Blue 1973 100 USA Comedy
Western
James Frawley Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson, Lee Purcell 6.2 539
Charley-One-Eye 1973 96 UK
USA
Western Don Chaffey Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes, Nigel Davenport, Jill Pearson, Aldo Sambrell 6.1 192
Zanna Bianca 1973 102 Italy
Spain
France
Adventure
Family
Western
Lucio Fulci Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, Fernando Rey, John Steiner, Raimund Harmstorf 6.1 649
Jory 1973 97 USA
Mexico
Western Jorge Fons John Marley, B.J. Thomas, Robby Benson, Claudio Brook, Patricia Aspíllaga 6.0 141
Showdown 1973 99 USA Western George Seaton Rock Hudson, Dean Martin, Susan Clark, Donald Moffat, John McLiam 5.9 828
Il mio nome è Shangai Joe 1973 98 Italy Action
Drama
Western
Mario Caiano Chen Lee, Klaus Kinski, Carla Romanelli, Gordon Mitchell, Katsutoshi Mikuriya 5.8 819
Apachen 1973 94 East Germany
Romania
Soviet Union
Western Gottfried Kolditz Gojko Mitic, Milan Beli, Colea Rautu, Leon Niemczyk, Gerry Wolff 5.8 322
Santee 1973 93 USA Western Gary Nelson Glenn Ford, Michael Burns, Dana Wynter, Jay Silverheels, Harry Townes 5.8 474
The Soul of Nigger Charley 1973 109 USA Western Larry G. Spangler Fred Williamson, D’Urville Martin, Denise Nicholas, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Kirk Calloway 5.8 160
Los amigos 1973 91 Italy Western Paolo Cavara Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Pamela Tiffin, Ira von Fürstenberg, Adolfo Lastretti 5.7 610
Un hombre llamado Noon 1973 98 UK
Italy
Spain
Mystery
Western
Peter Collinson Richard Crenna, Stephen Boyd, Rosanna Schiaffino, Farley Granger, Patty Shepard 5.7 365
The Deadly Trackers 1973 110 USA Drama
Western
Barry Shear
Samuel Fuller
Richard Harris, Rod Taylor, Al Lettieri, Neville Brand, William Smith 5.7 691
Mi chiamavano ‘Requiescat’… ma avevano sbagliato 1973 85 Italy
Spain
Western Mario Bianchi Sergio Ciani, William Berger, Frank Braña, Fernando Bilbao, Gilberto Galimberti 5.1 104
Scalawag 1973 92 Italy
Yugoslavia
USA
Adventure
Western
Kirk Douglas
Zoran Calic
Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester, Neville Brand, George Eastman, Don Stroud 5.1 290
The Brothers O’Toole 1973 95 USA Comedy
Western
Richard Erdman John Astin, Pat Carroll, Hans Conried, Richard Erdman, Allyn Joslyn 4.6 127
Hex 1973 92 USA Drama
Horror
Western
Leo Garen Keith Carradine, Cristina Raines, Scott Glenn, Hilarie Thompson, Robert Walker Jr.  4.5 142
Die blutigen Geier von Alaska 1973 95 West Germany
Yugoslavia
Adventure
Western
Harald Reinl Doug McClure, Harald Leipnitz, Angelica Ott, Roberto Blanco, Kristina Nel 4.1 137
Godmonster of Indian Flats 1973 89 USA Western
Horror
Fredric Hobbs Christopher Brooks, Stuart Lancaster, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Peggy Browne, Richard Marion 3.9 591
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Blazing Saddles 1974 93 USA Comedy
Western
Mel Brooks Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn 7.7 123476
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams 1974 93 USA Adventure
Family
Western
Richard Friedenberg Dan Haggerty, Don Shanks, Marjorie Harper, Lisa Jones, William Woodson 6.9 811
Boss Nigger 1974 87 USA Comedy
Western
Jack Arnold Fred Williamson, D’Urville Martin, William Smith, R.G. Armstrong, Don ‘Red’ Barry 6.6 2189
Zandy’s Bride 1974 97 USA Drama
Western
Jan Troell Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell, Harry Dean Stanton 6.4 914
Billy Two Hats 1974 99 USA
UK
Israel
Romance
Western
Ted Kotcheff Gregory Peck, Desi Arnaz Jr., Jack Warden, David Huddleston, Sian Barbara Allen 6.3 1111
The Spikes Gang 1974 96 USA Drama
Western
Richard Fleischer Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith, Arthur Hunnicutt 6.3 1218
Touche pas à la femme blanche 1974 108 France
Italy
Comedy
Western
Marco Ferreri Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi 6.2 741
The Castaway Cowboy 1974 91 USA Comedy
Family
Western
Vincent McEveety James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, Eric Shea, Elizabeth Smith 5.9 488
El karate el Colt y el impostor 1974 105 Italy
Spain
Hong Kong
USA
Comedy
Western
Antonio Margheriti Lee Van Cleef, Lieh Lo, Patty Shepard, Femi Benussi, Karen Yeh 5.8 779
Thomasine & Bushrod 1974 95 USA Action
Crime
Western
Gordon Parks Jr.  Max Julien, Vonetta McGee, George Murdock, Glynn Turman, Juanita Moore 5.7 269
Ulzana 1974 91 East Germany
Soviet Union
Romania
Adventure
Western
Gottfried Kolditz Gojko Mitic, Renate Blume, Rolf Hoppe, Colea Rautu, Amza Pellea 5.7 221
Il ritorno di Zanna Bianca 1974 100 Italy
West Germany
France
Adventure
Western
Lucio Fulci Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, John Steiner, Raimund Harmstorf, Yanti Somer 5.6 283
Seven Alone 1974 97 USA Adventure
Family
Western
Earl Bellamy Dewey Martin, Anne Collings, Aldo Ray, Dean Smith, James Griffith 5.5 431
Carambola 1974 94 Italy Comedy
Western
Ferdinando Baldi Paul L. Smith, Antonio Cantafora, Horst Frank, Guglielmo Spoletini, Pino Ferrara 4.6 120
Alien Thunder 1974 93 Canada Western Claude Fournier Donald Sutherland, Gordon Tootoosis, Chief Dan George, Kevin McCarthy, Jean Duceppe 4.5 267
Gone with the West 1974 92 USA Action
Western
Bernard Girard James Caan, Stefanie Powers, Aldo Ray, Barbara Werle, Robert Walker Jr.  3.2 340
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Rooster Cogburn 1975 108 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
Stuart Millar John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire 6.9 10604
Bite the Bullet 1975 132 USA Action
Adventure
Western
Richard Brooks Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen 6.7 4653
Breakheart Pass 1975 95 USA Mystery
Western
Tom Gries Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning 6.7 6511
The Apple Dumpling Gang 1975 100 USA Comedy
Family
Western
Norman Tokar Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Don Knotts, Tim Conway, David Wayne 6.5 4944
Posse 1975 92 USA Western Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy, Luke Askew 6.5 1821
Un genio, due compari, un pollo 1975 126 Italy
France
West Germany
Comedy
Western
Damiano Damiani Terence Hill, Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Raimund Harmstorf 6.4 4813
Hearts of the West 1975 102 USA Western
Comedy
Howard Zieff Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin 6.4 1323
I quattro dell’Apocalisse 1975 104 Italy Fantasy
Western
Lucio Fulci Fabio Testi, Lynne Frederick, Michael J. Pollard, Harry Baird, Tomas Milian 6.4 2278
Rancho Deluxe 1975 93 USA Comedy
Romance
Western
Frank Perry Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, Slim Pickens 6.3 1530
Take a Hard Ride 1975 103 Italy
Spain
USA
Western Antonio Margheriti Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak, Jim Kelly 5.8 1042
Il bianco il giallo il nero 1975 112 Italy
Spain
France
Western
Adventure
Comedy
Sergio Corbucci Giuliano Gemma, Tomas Milian, Eli Wallach, Manuel de Blas, Jacques Berthier 5.7 568
Winterhawk 1975 98 USA Adventure
Western
Charles B. Pierce Leif Erickson, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle, L.Q. Jones, Elisha Cook Jr.  5.7 386
Against a Crooked Sky 1975 89 USA Adventure
Family
Western
Earl Bellamy Richard Boone, Stewart Petersen, Henry Wilcoxon, Clint Ritchie, Shannon Farnon 5.5 453
Cipolla Colt 1975 92 Italy
Spain
West Germany
Comedy
Western
Enzo G. Castellari Franco Nero, Sterling Hayden, Martin Balsam, Emma Cohen, Leo Anchóriz 5.5 607
Blutsbrüder 1975 100 East Germany Western
Drama
Werner W. Wallroth Dean Reed, Gojko Mitic, Gisela Freudenberg, Jörg Panknin, Cornel Ispas 5.2 190
Zanna Bianca alla riscossa 1975 97 Italy Action
Adventure
Western
Tonino Ricci Maurizio Merli, Henry Silva, Renzo Palmer, Gisela Hahn, Benito Stefanelli 5.1 135
Atini seven kovboy 1975 86 Turkey Comedy
Western
Aram Gülyüz Sadri Alisik, Figen Han, Aydin Babaoglu, Sami Hazinses, Mehmet Asik 4.9 204
The Master Gunfighter 1975 121 USA Drama
Western
Tom Laughlin Tom Laughlin, Ron O’Neal, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Geo Anne Sosa, Barbara Carrera 4.7 347
Jessi’s Girls 1975 80 USA Western Al Adamson Sondra Currie, Geoffrey Land, Ben Frank, Regina Carrol, Jennifer Bishop 4.5 156
Adiós Amigo 1975 87 USA Action
Comedy
Western
Fred Williamson Fred Williamson, Richard Pryor, James Brown, Robert Phillips, Mike Henry 4.2 230
Il richiamo del lupo 1975 98 Italy
Spain
Adventure
Western
Gianfranco Baldanello Jack Palance, Joan Collins, Elisabetta Virgili, Manuel de Blas, Fernando E. Romero 4.2 153
Apache Blood 1975 86 USA Western Vern Piehl Ray Danton, Dewitt Lee, Troy Nabors, Diane Taylor, Eva Kovacs 3.1 215
Blazing Stewardesses 1975 95 USA Comedy
Western
Al Adamson Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Livingston, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Geoffrey Land, Connie Hoffman 2.5 355
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 135 USA Western Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon 7.8 64145
The Shootist 1976 100 USA Drama
Romance
Western
Don Siegel John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone 7.6 21629
Keoma 1976 105 Italy Drama
Western
Enzo G. Castellari Franco Nero, William Berger, Olga Karlatos, Orso Maria Guerrini, Gabriella Giacobbe 7.1 4902
Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél 1976 90 Hungary Drama
Western
György Szomjas Djoko Rosic, István Bujtor, Vladan Holec, Irén Bordán, Olga Beregszászi 6.8 248
From Noon Till Three 1976 99 USA Comedy
Romance
Western
Frank D. Gilroy Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Douglas Fowley, Stan Haze, Damon Douglas 6.6 2398
The Missouri Breaks 1976 126 USA Drama
Western
Arthur Penn Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd, Frederic Forrest 6.6 9326
Across the Great Divide 1976 100 USA Family
Western
Stewart Raffill Robert Logan, Heather Rattray, Mark Edward Hall, George ‘Buck’ Flower, Hal Bokar 6.4 588
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday 1976 102 USA
Mexico
Comedy
Western
Don Taylor Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Elizabeth Ashley, Strother Martin 6.3 1295
Mustang Country 1976 79 USA Drama
Family
Western
John C. Champion Joel McCrea, Robert Fuller, Patrick Wayne, Nika Mina, NA 6.3 228
The Last Hard Men 1976 98 USA Western Andrew V. McLaglen Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Barbara Hershey, Jorge Rivero, Michael Parks 6.2 1896
Treasure of Matecumbe 1976 117 USA Adventure
Family
Western
Vincent McEveety Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Peter Ustinov, Vic Morrow, Johnny Doran 6.2 542
The Winds of Autumn 1976 100 USA Action
Adventure
Western
Charles B. Pierce Jack Elam, Jeanette Nolan, Andrew Prine, Earl E. Smith, Chuck Pierce Jr.  6.2 155
Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson 1976 123 USA Comedy
Western
Robert Altman Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Harvey Keitel, Allan F. Nicholls 6.1 4041
The Return of a Man Called Horse 1976 129 Mexico
USA
Drama
Western
Irvin Kershner Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, William Lucking, Jorge Luke 6.1 1636
Baker’s Hawk 1976 98 USA Western Lyman Dayton Clint Walker, Burl Ives, Diane Baker, Lee Montgomery, Alan Young 5.8 205
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox 1976 103 USA Comedy
Western
Melvin Frank George Segal, Goldie Hawn, Conrad Janis, Thayer David, Jennifer Lee Pryor 5.7 1618
Hawmps! 1976 113 USA Comedy
Family
Western
Joe Camp James Hampton, Christopher Connelly, Slim Pickens, Denver Pyle, Gino Conforti 5.4 296
Pony Express Rider 1976 100 USA Western Robert Totten Stewart Petersen, Henry Wilcoxon, Buck Taylor, Maureen McCormick, Ken Curtis 5.2 107
Diamante Lobo 1976 94 Italy
Israel
Western Gianfranco Parolini Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Boone, Sybil Danning, Leif Garrett 5.1 1224
Joshua 1976 90 USA Drama
Western
Larry G. Spangler Fred Williamson, Cal Bartlett, Brenda Venus, Isela Vega, Bud Stout 4.5 294
Potato Fritz 1976 94 West Germany Comedy
Western
Peter Schamoni Hardy Krüger, Stephen Boyd, Anton Diffring, Friedrich von Ledebur, Arthur Brauss 4.5 130
Buffalo Rider 1976 90 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
John Fabian
Dick Robinson
C. Lindsay Workman, Rick Guinn, John Freeman, Rich Scheeland, George Sager 4.5 379
The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West 1976 86 USA Western
Comedy
Jack Arnold
Earl Bellamy
Bob Denver, Forrest Tucker, Ivor Francis, Jeannine Riley, Lori Saunders 3.7 181
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
California 1977 98 Italy
Spain
Drama
Western
Michele Lupo Giuliano Gemma, William Berger, Miguel Bosé, Chris Avram, Paola Dominguín 6.7 435
The White Buffalo 1977 97 USA Action
Adventure
Western
J. Lee Thompson Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak, Clint Walker 6.2 3818
The Shadow of Chikara 1977 114 USA Horror
Western
Earl E. Smith Joe Don Baker, Sondra Locke, Ted Neeley, Joy N. Houck Jr., Dennis Fimple 5.6 320
Kid Vengeance 1977 94 USA
Israel
Western Joseph Manduke Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown, John Marley, Glynnis O’Connor, Leif Garrett 4.9 483
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Profetul, aurul si Ardelenii 1978 98 Romania
Czechoslovakia
Comedy
Western
Dan Pita
Mircea Veroiu
Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu, Victor Rebengiuc, Vasile Nitulescu 7.5 516
Artista, dolarii si Ardelenii 1978 97 Romania Western Mircea Veroiu Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu, Rodica Tapalaga, Mircea Albulescu 7.4 413
Comes a Horseman 1978 118 USA Drama
Romance
Western
Alan J. Pakula James Caan, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, George Grizzard, Richard Farnsworth 6.3 2371
Sella d’argento 1978 98 Italy Western
Action
Lucio Fulci Giuliano Gemma, Sven Valsecchi, Ettore Manni, Gianni De Luigi, Cinzia Monreale 6.2 580
Amore, piombo e furore 1978 102 Italy
Spain
Romance
Western
Monte Hellman
Tony Brandt
Warren Oates, Fabio Testi, Jenny Agutter, Sam Peckinpah, Isabel Mestres 6.1 991
Shoot the Sun Down 1978 100 USA Drama
Western
David Leeds Margot Kidder, Geoffrey Lewis, Christopher Walken, Bo Brundin, A Martinez 4.8 136
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Heartland 1979 96 USA Western
Drama
Richard Pearce Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell, Barry Primus, Megan Folsom, Lilia Skala 7.3 847
The Frisco Kid 1979 119 USA Comedy
Drama
Western
Robert Aldrich Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George DiCenzo 6.4 8344
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again 1979 88 USA Comedy
Family
Western
Vincent McEveety Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Tim Matheson, Kenneth Mars, Elyssa Davalos 6.2 2403
Eagle’s Wing 1979 111 UK Western Anthony Harvey Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston, Harvey Keitel, Stéphane Audran, John Castle 5.9 674
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days 1979 115 USA Comedy
Western
Richard Lester William Katt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Corey, John Schuck, Michael C. Gwynne 5.7 1284
The Villain 1979 89 USA Comedy
Western
Hal Needham Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul Lynde, Foster Brooks 5.4 6424
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Long Riders 1980 100 USA Biography
Crime
Western
Walter Hill David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, James Keach, Stacy Keach 7.0 9601
Windwalker 1980 108 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
Kieth Merrill Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus, James Remar, Serene Hedin, Dusty McCrea 7.0 962
Heaven’s Gate 1980 219 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
Michael Cimino Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif 6.8 13386
The Mountain Men 1980 102 USA Adventure
Western
Richard Lang Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo, Stephen Macht, John Glover 6.4 1965
Urban Cowboy 1980 132 USA Drama
Romance
Western
James Bridges John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Barry Corbin 6.4 12958
The Return of Josey Wales 1980 90 USA Western Michael Parks Michael Parks, Rafael Campos, Everett Sifuentes, Suzie Humphreys, John William Galt 4.3 137
Élve vagy halva 1980 80 Hungary Drama
History
Western
Tamás Rényi Lajos Balázsovits, György Cserhalmi, Dezsö Garas, Djoko Rosic, Károly Mécs 2.9 172
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Pruncul, petrolul si Ardelenii 1981 104 Romania Comedy
Western
Dan Pita Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu, Jean Constantin, Stefan Iordache 7.5 411
Occhio alla penna 1981 90 Italy Comedy
Western
Michele Lupo Bud Spencer, Joe Bugner, Piero Trombetta, Carlo Reali, Sara Franchetti 6.6 2850
Cattle Annie and Little Britches 1981 97 USA
Mexico
Drama
Western
Lamont Johnson Scott Glenn, Diane Lane, Burt Lancaster, Amanda Plummer, Rod Steiger 6.1 550
Comin’ at Ya! 1981 91 Italy
Spain
USA
Western Ferdinando Baldi Tony Anthony, Gene Quintano, Victoria Abril, Ricardo Palacios, Lewis Gordon 5.1 465
The Legend of the Lone Ranger 1981 98 USA
UK
Action
Adventure
Western
William A. Fraker Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark, Juanin Clay 5.1 1832
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez 1982 106 USA Western Robert M. Young Edward James Olmos, James Gammon, Tom Bower, Bruce McGill, Brion James 6.9 344
Barbarosa 1982 90 USA Western Fred Schepisi Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega, Gilbert Roland, Danny De La Paz 6.4 1416
Harry Tracy, Desperado 1982 107 Canada Drama
Western
William A. Graham Bruce Dern, Helen Shaver, Michael C. Gwynne, Gordon Lightfoot, Jacques Hubert 6.3 358
Krasnye kolokola, film pervyy - Meksika v ogne 1982 135 Mexico
Soviet Union
Drama
Western
Sergey Bondarchuk Franco Nero, Ursula Andress, Jorge Luke, Blanca Guerra, Heraclio Zepeda 6.1 157
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Krasnye kolokola, film vtoroy - Ya videl rozhdenie novogo mira 1983 139 Soviet Union
Mexico
Italy
Drama
Western
Sergey Bondarchuk Franco Nero, Anatoli Ustyzhaninov, Sydne Rome, Bohdan Stupka, Aleksandr Sayko 6.6 132
Eyes of Fire 1983 90 USA Horror
Western
Avery Crounse Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley, Sally Klein, Karlene Crockett 6.3 734
Sacred Ground 1983 100 USA Drama
Western
Charles B. Pierce Tim McIntire, L.Q. Jones, Jack Elam, Mindi Miller, Eloy Casados 6.0 185
Der Scout 1983 102 East Germany
Mongolia
Western Dshamjangijn Buntar
Konrad Petzold
Gojko Mitic, Battsetseg Natsagdorj, Klaus Manchen, Milan Beli, Giso Weißbach 6.0 118
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse 1983 86 Spain
Mexico
USA
Canada
Western John Hough Richard Harris, Michael Beck, Ana De Sade, Vaughn Armstrong, Anne Seymour 5.6 521
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Mala pljacka vlaka 1984 103 Yugoslavia Comedy
Drama
Western
Dejan Sorak Velimir ‘Bata’ Zivojinovic, Miodrag Krivokapic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Krunoslav Saric, Danko Ljustina 7.2 211
Lust in the Dust 1984 84 USA Comedy
Western
Paul Bartel Tab Hunter, Divine, Lainie Kazan, Geoffrey Lewis, Henry Silva 6.5 2847
Al este del oeste 1984 85 Spain Comedy
Western
Mariano Ozores Fernando Esteso, Antonio Ozores, Conrado San Martín, Adriana Vega, Fernando Sancho 5.6 172
Arrapaho 1984 98 Italy Comedy
Western
Ciro Ippolito Urs Althaus, Daniele Pace, Squallor, Tinì Cansino, Alfredo Cerruti 5.0 188
Yellow Hair and the Pecos Kid 1984 102 Spain Adventure
Comedy
Western
Matt Cimber Laurene Landon, Ken Roberson, Cihangir Gaffari, Luis Lorenzo, Claudia Gravy 4.4 321
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Pale Rider 1985 115 USA Drama
Western
Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Richard Dysart 7.3 51377
Tex e il signore degli abissi 1985 104 Italy Adventure
Fantasy
Western
Duccio Tessari Giuliano Gemma, William Berger, Carlo Mucari, Isabel Russinova, Peter Berling 5.4 312
Space Rage 1985 77 USA Action
Sci-Fi
Western
Conrad E. Palmisano Richard Farnsworth, Michael Paré, John Laughlin, Lee Purcell, Lewis Van Bergen 3.9 284
Alien Outlaw 1985 90 USA Sci-Fi
Western
Phil Smoot Stephen Winegard, Kimberly Mauldin, Stuart Watson, Sunset Carson, Kari Anderson 3.4 404
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Foo gwai lip che 1986 98 Hong Kong Action
Comedy
Western
Sammo Kam-Bo Hung Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Biao Yuen, Olivia Cheng, Rosamund Kwan, Kenny Bee 7.1 1385
¡Three Amigos! 1986 104 USA Comedy
Western
John Landis Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Alfonso Arau, Tony Plana 6.5 66674
Red Headed Stranger 1986 105 USA Western William D. Wittliff Willie Nelson, Morgan Fairchild, R.G. Armstrong, Royal Dano, Katharine Ross 6.3 425
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Straight to Hell 1987 86 UK Action
Comedy
Western
Alex Cox Dick Rude, Sy Richardson, Courtney Love, Joe Strummer, Gloria Miralles Ruiz 5.8 2226
Django 2 - Il grande ritorno 1987 88 Italy Western Nello Rossati Franco Nero, Christopher Connelly, Licinia Lentini, William Berger, Roberto Posse 5.5 1051
Scalps 1987 102 Italy
Spain
Western
Action
Drama
Claudio Fragasso
Bruno Mattei
Vassili Karis, Mapi Galán, Alberto Farnese, Charly Bravo, Beni Cardoso 5.4 220
Bianco Apache 1987 100 Italy
Spain
Western Claudio Fragasso
Bruno Mattei
Sebastian Harrison, Lola Forner, Alberto Farnese, Charly Bravo, Cinzia de Ponti 4.5 118
Ghost Riders 1987 85 USA Horror
Western
Alan Stewart Bill Shaw, Bill Shaw, Jim Peters, Ricky Long, Cari Powell 3.5 107
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Young Guns 1988 107 USA Action
Western
Christopher Cain Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney 6.9 53474
Bolek i Lolek na Dzikim Zachodzie 1988 95 Poland Animation
Adventure
Western
Stanislaw Dulz Piotr Fronczewski, Andrzej Gawronski, Krzysztof Krupinski, Ilona Kusmierska, Dorota Lanton 6.6 170
The Man from Snowy River II 1988 110 Australia Adventure
Drama
Western
Geoff Burrowes Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie, Mark Hembrow 6.6 2253
Tin law dei mong 1988 87 Hong Kong Action
Drama
Western
Kirk Wong Tony Ka Fai Leung, Adam Cheng, Elizabeth Lee, Carrie Ng, Waise Lee 6.0 178
Luzia Homem 1988 105 Brazil Drama
Western
Fábio Barreto Claudia Ohana, José de Abreu, Thales Pan Chacon, Luiza Falcão, Ruy Polanah 5.5 119
Ghost Town 1988 85 USA Action
Horror
Western
Richard McCarthy
Mac Ahlberg
Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Penelope Windust, Bruce Glover 5.4 1218
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat 1989 104 USA Comedy
Horror
Western
Anthony Hickox David Carradine, Morgan Brittany, Bruce Campbell, Jim Metzler, Maxwell Caulfield 6.1 2187
Joshilaay 1989 107 India Action
Drama
Western
Sibte Hassan Rizvi Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda 5.7 248
Blood Red 1989 91 UK
USA
Drama
Romance
Western
Peter Masterson Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young, Carlin Glynn 3.6 662
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Dances with Wolves 1990 181 USA
UK
Adventure
Drama
Western
Kevin Costner Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman 8.0 235155
Thousand Pieces of Gold 1990 105 USA
UK
Romance
Western
Nancy Kelly Rosalind Chao, Chris Cooper, Michael Paul Chan, Dennis Dun, Jimmie F. Skaggs 6.9 549
Kodama Simham 1990 141 India Action
Adventure
Western
K. Muralimohana Rao Chiranjeevi, Sonam, Radha, Satyanarayana Kaikala, Mohan Babu 6.7 289
Young Guns II 1990 104 USA Action
Western
Geoff Murphy Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen 6.5 30458
Big Bad John 1990 92 USA Action
Drama
Western
Burt Kennedy Jimmy Dean, Jack Elam, Ned Beatty, Romy Windsor, Jeff Osterhage 5.5 125
The Giant of Thunder Mountain 1990 88 USA Drama
Family
Western
James W. Roberson Cloris Leachman, Richard Kiel, Lynne Seus, Doug Seus, Marianne Gordon 5.5 219
Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail… to Terror 1990 86 USA Horror
Western
Wayne Coe James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, Will Hare, Marc McClure, Michelle Joyner 5.4 893
Bad Jim 1990 90 USA Western Clyde Ware James Brolin, Richard Roundtree, John Clark Gable, Harry Carey Jr., Rory Calhoun 4.2 193
Border Shootout 1990 110 USA Western Chris McIntyre Michael Forest, Cody Glenn, Michael Horse, Sergio Calderón, Jeff Kaake 3.8 120
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Clearcut 1991 100 Canada Drama
Thriller
Western
Ryszard Bugajski Graham Greene, Ron Lea, Michael Hogan, Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman, Rebecca Jenkins 7.1 544
City Slickers 1991 113 USA Comedy
Western
Ron Underwood Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater 6.8 47309
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys 1991 106 USA Drama
Western
Stuart Rosenberg Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Tess Harper, Gary Busey 6.3 523
Lucky Luke 1991 92 Italy Comedy
Western
Terence Hill Terence Hill, Nancy Morgan, Roger Miller, Ron Carey, Dominic Barto 5.2 3528
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Unforgiven 1992 130 USA Drama
Western
Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett 8.2 367365
Of Mice and Men 1992 115 USA Drama
Western
Gary Sinise John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn 7.5 39694
Mad at the Moon 1992 98 USA Horror
Romance
Western
Martin Donovan Lori Ashton, Hart Bochner, Pat Atkins, Eleanor Baggett, Daphne Zuniga 6.5 357
Desert Kickboxer 1992 86 USA Action
Drama
Western
Isaac Florentine John Newton, Paul L. Smith, Judie Aronson, Frankie Avina, Luis Contreras 4.4 191
The Legend of Wolf Mountain 1992 91 USA Adventure
Family
Western
Craig Clyde Bo Hopkins, Robert Z’Dar, David ‘Shark’ Fralick, Vivian Schilling, Nicole Lund 4.1 159
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Legacy 1993 53 USA Drama
History
Western
Kieth Merrill Kathleen Beller, Benton Jennings, Steve Abolt, Marcus Gilbert, J.T. Gorham 7.3 435
Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem 1993 86 Germany Comedy
Western
Ralf Huettner
Helge Schneider
Helge Schneider, Peter Thoms, Buddy Casino, Andreas Kunze, Peter Berling 6.8 2362
The Ballad of Little Jo 1993 121 USA Drama
Romance
Western
Maggie Greenwald Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung, Heather Graham 6.7 1387
Geronimo: An American Legend 1993 115 USA Drama
History
Western
Walter Hill Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Matt Damon 6.5 8897
Posse 1993 111 UK
USA
Netherlands
Western Mario Van Peebles Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles Lane, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, Big Daddy Kane 5.5 3905
Silent Tongue 1993 102 France
Netherlands
UK
USA
Drama
Horror
Western
Sam Shepard Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix, Dermot Mulroney, Sheila Tousey 5.3 1079
Paper Hearts 1993 88 USA Drama
Romance
Western
Rod McCall James Brolin, Sally Kirkland, Pamela Gidley, Laura Johnson, Michael Moore 5.2 127
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Jonathan degli orsi 1994 88 Italy
Russia
Action
Western
Enzo G. Castellari Franco Nero, John Saxon, Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman, David Hess, Rodrigo Obregón 6.3 304
Botte di Natale 1994 107 Italy
Germany
USA
Comedy
Family
Western
Terence Hill Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Boots Southerland, Ruth Buzzi, Neil Summers 6.1 3549
Frank & Jesse 1994 105 USA Biography
Western
Robert Boris Rob Lowe, Bill Paxton, Randy Travis, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Maria Pitillo 5.8 1342
Lightning Jack 1994 98 USA
Australia
Comedy
Western
Simon Wincer Paul Hogan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Beverly D’Angelo, Kamala Lopez, Pat Hingle 5.6 6312
Wagons East 1994 107 USA
Mexico
Adventure
Comedy
Western
Peter Markle Joe Bays, Abraham Benrubi, Jill Boyd, John Candy, Douglas Carlson 4.9 4829
Rockwell 1994 105 USA Western Richard Lloyd Dewey Randy Gleave, Scott Christopher, John Bozung, Michael Flynn, Linda Gilbert 4.1 106
Trigger Fast 1994 96 USA Western David Lister Jürgen Prochnow, Martin Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Gerard Christopher, Todd Jensen 2.5 633
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Last of the Dogmen 1995 118 USA
Mexico
Canada
Adventure
Western
Tab Murphy Tom Berenger, Barbara Hershey, Kurtwood Smith, Steve Reevis, Andrew Miller 7.0 4826
Pharaoh’s Army 1995 90 USA Western Robby Henson Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Joy, Richard Tyson 6.7 561
A Fistful of Fingers 1995 78 UK Comedy
Western
Edgar Wright Graham Low, Martin Curtis, Oli van der Vijver, Quentin Green, William Cornes 6.2 643
Wild Bill 1995 98 USA Action
Biography
Western
Walter Hill Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, Diane Lane, Keith Carradine 5.9 6367
East Meets West 1995 124 Japan Western Kihachi Okamoto Christopher Mayer, Hiroyuki Sanada, Scott Bachicha, Tatsuya Nakadai, Naoto Takenaka 5.8 107
Trinità & Bambino… e adesso tocca a noi! 1995 105 Italy
Spain
Germany
Western Enzo Barboni Heath Kizzier, Keith Neubert, Yvonne de Bark, Fanny Cadeo, Ronald Nitschke 5.3 136
Atolladero 1995 95 Spain Sci-Fi
Western
Óscar Aibar Mercè Pons, Ariadna Gil, Termes Lluis, Oriol Tramvia, Benito Pocino 5.1 220
Hard Bounty 1995 88 USA Western Jim Wynorski Matt McCoy, Kelly LeBrock, John Terlesky, Kimberly Kelley, Rochelle Swanson 3.8 453
Timemaster 1995 100 USA Adventure
Sci-Fi
Western
James Glickenhaus Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Pat Morita, Joanna Pacula, Duncan Regehr, Michael Dorn 3.6 372
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Precious Find 1996 90 USA Adventure
Sci-Fi
Western
Philippe Mora Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Harold Pruett, Brion James, Morgan Hunter 3.7 517
Aquí llega Condemor, el pecador de la pradera 1996 90 Spain Comedy
Musical
Western
Álvaro Sáenz de Heredia Chiquito de la Calzada, Bigote Arrocet, Sol Abad, Naim Thomas, Julio Tejela 2.8 574
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Los Locos 1997 99 Canada Western Jean-Marc Vallée Mario Van Peebles, Rene Auberjonois, Tom Dorfmeister, Paul Lazar, Rusty Schwimmer 5.1 254
The Shooter 1997 91 USA Western Fred Olen Ray Michael Dudikoff, Randy Travis, Valerie Wildman, Andrew Stevens, William Smith 5.1 497
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Horse Whisperer 1998 169 USA Drama
Romance
Western
Robert Redford Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansson 6.6 38447
The Hi-Lo Country 1998 114 UK
Germany
USA
Drama
Romance
Western
Stephen Frears Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Cole Hauser, Enrique Castillo, Darren E. Burrows 6.2 4075
Almost Heroes 1998 90 USA Adventure
Comedy
Western
Christopher Guest Chris Farley, Matthew Perry, Bokeem Woodbine, Barry Del Sherman, Robert Tittor 5.9 15454
Painted Angels 1998 108 UK
Canada
Drama
Western
Jon Sanders Brenda Fricker, Kelly McGillis, Meret Becker, Bronagh Gallagher, Lisa Jakub 5.6 202
Il mio West 1998 95 Italy Comedy
Drama
Western
Giovanni Veronesi Leonardo Pieraccioni, Harvey Keitel, David Bowie, Alessia Marcuzzi, Sandrine Holt 4.5 822
Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Grey Owl 1999 118 UK
Canada
Biography
Drama
Western
Richard Attenborough Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau, Neil Kroetsch 6.0 3337
Durango Kids 1999 102 USA Family
Fantasy
Western
Ashton Root Larry Drake, Curtis Williams, Brendon Ryan Barrett, Caitlin Barrett, Taylor Root 5.1 340
Gunfighter 1999 94 USA Western Christopher Coppola Robert Carradine, Martin Sheen, George Nix, Dick Chaney, James Laughlin 3.9 280

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Letter 1940 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Wyler Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard 7.6 11410
They Drive by Night 1940 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Raoul Walsh George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page 7.3 6998
Johnny Apollo 1940 94 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Henry Hathaway Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lloyd Nolan, Charley Grapewin 7.0 1125
Stranger on the Third Floor 1940 64 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Boris Ingster Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr.  6.9 3522
The Saint’s Double Trouble 1940 67 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Hively George Sanders, Helene Reynolds, Jonathan Hale, Bela Lugosi, Donald MacBride 6.1 686
Doomed to Die 1940 68 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Nigh Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers, William Stelling, Catherine Craig 5.6 982

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of any Genre for the same Year

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 The Great Dictator 1940 125 USA Comedy
Drama
War
Charles Chaplin Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert 8.4 197381
2 Rebecca 1940 130 USA Drama
Mystery
Romance
Alfred Hitchcock Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce 8.1 119307
3 The Shop Around the Corner 1940 99 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
Ernst Lubitsch Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden 8.1 26822
4 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 129 USA Drama
History
John Ford Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon 8.0 84612
5 His Girl Friday 1940 92 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
Howard Hawks Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall 7.9 52288
6 The Philadelphia Story 1940 112 USA Comedy
Romance
George Cukor Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard 7.9 62135
7 Fantasia 1940 125 USA Animation
Family
Fantasy
James Algar
Samuel Armstrong
Deems Taylor, Leopold Stokowski, The Philadelphia Orchestra, NA, NA 7.8 86795
8 The Mortal Storm 1940 100 USA Drama Frank Borzage Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert Stack 7.8 4406
9 Waterloo Bridge 1940 108 USA Drama
Romance
War
Mervyn LeRoy Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya 7.8 8727
10 The Sea Hawk 1940 127 USA Action
Adventure
History
Michael Curtiz Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson 7.7 8962

1941

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Maltese Falcon 1941 100 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
John Huston Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane 8.0 146815
The Face Behind the Mask 1941 69 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Florey Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe, George E. Stone, John Tyrrell 7.2 1034
I Wake Up Screaming 1941 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
H. Bruce Humberstone Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, William Gargan 7.2 3918
A Woman’s Face 1941 106 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
George Cukor Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen, Reginald Owen 7.2 2699
Johnny Eager 1941 107 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Mervyn LeRoy Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling 7.1 2631
Ladies in Retirement 1941 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Charles Vidor Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett 7.0 992
Out of the Fog 1941 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Anatole Litvak John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert, George Tobias 6.9 1254
Blues in the Night 1941 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Anatole Litvak Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson 6.8 952
The Shanghai Gesture 1941 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Josef von Sternberg Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson, Phyllis Brooks 6.7 2475
Dressed to Kill 1941 74 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Eugene Forde Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, William Demarest, Ben Carter 6.5 967
Flight from Destiny 1941 75 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Vincent Sherman Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn, James Stephenson, Mona Maris 6.5 215
Among the Living 1941 67 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Stuart Heisler Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer, Gordon Jones 6.3 464
Paper Bullets 1941 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Phil Rosen Joan Woodbury, Jack La Rue, Linda Ware, John Archer, Vince Barnett 5.4 209

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of any Genre for the same Year

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Citizen Kane 1941 119 USA Drama
Mystery
Orson Welles Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins 8.3 389322
2 The Little Foxes 1941 116 USA Drama
Romance
William Wyler Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, Dan Duryea 8.0 10092
3 The Maltese Falcon 1941 100 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
John Huston Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane 8.0 146815
4 Sullivan’s Travels 1941 90 USA Adventure
Comedy
Drama
Preston Sturges Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn 7.9 23436
5 Ball of Fire 1941 111 USA Comedy
Romance
Howard Hawks Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall 7.8 10525
6 The Lady Eve 1941 94 USA Comedy
Romance
Preston Sturges Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest 7.8 18638
7 How Green Was My Valley 1941 118 USA Drama
Family
John Ford Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall 7.7 20806
8 Sergeant York 1941 134 USA Biography
Drama
History
Howard Hawks Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges 7.7 15009
9 All That Money Can Buy 1941 107 USA Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
William Dieterle Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon, Gene Lockhart 7.6 4508
10 The Devil and Miss Jones 1941 92 USA Comedy
Romance
Sam Wood Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington 7.6 3587

1942

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
This Gun for Hire 1942 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Frank Tuttle Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall 7.4 8166
The Glass Key 1942 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Stuart Heisler Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning 7.1 5401
Moontide 1942 94 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Archie Mayo
Fritz Lang
Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Jerome Cowan 6.9 1390
Kid Glove Killer 1942 74 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fred Zinnemann Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman, Samuel S. Hinds, Cliff Clark 6.8 895
The Big Shot 1942 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis Seiler Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges 6.7 751
Crossroads 1942 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Conway William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor, Basil Rathbone, Margaret Wycherly 6.7 1157
Fly-By-Night 1942 74 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Robert Siodmak Richard Carlson, Nancy Kelly, Albert Bassermann, Miles Mander, Edward Gargan 6.6 218
Time to Kill 1942 61 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
Herbert I. Leeds Lloyd Nolan, Heather Angel, Doris Merrick, Ralph Byrd, Richard Lane 6.6 193
Fingers at the Window 1942 80 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Charles Lederer Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford, Miles Mander 6.4 730
Nightmare 1942 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Tim Whelan Diana Barrymore, Brian Donlevy, Henry Daniell, Eustace Wyatt, Arthur Shields 6.4 117
Quiet Please: Murder 1942 70 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Francis Larkin George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts, Sidney Blackmer 6.4 268
Street of Chance 1942 74 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Jack Hively Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Platt, Sheldon Leonard, Frieda Inescort 6.4 371
Mystery of Marie Roget 1942 61 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Phil Rosen Patric Knowles, Maria Montez, Maria Ouspenskaya, John Litel, Edward Norris 6.0 158
Lady Gangster 1942 62 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Florey Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox, Roland Drew, Jackie Gleason 5.8 481
The Pay Off 1942 74 USA Action
Crime
Film-Noir
Arthur Dreifuss Lee Tracy, Tom Brown, Tina Thayer, Evelyn Brent, Jack La Rue 5.7 179

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of any Genre for the same Year

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Casablanca 1942 102 USA Drama
Romance
War
Michael Curtiz Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt 8.5 509953
2 To Be or Not to Be 1942 99 USA Comedy
War
Ernst Lubitsch Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill 8.2 27473
3 Random Harvest 1942 126 USA Drama
Romance
Mervyn LeRoy Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters, Henry Travers 8.0 6732
4 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 75 USA Drama
Western
William A. Wellman Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn, William Eythe 8.0 20438
5 Now, Voyager 1942 117 USA Drama
Romance
Irving Rapper Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville 7.9 14808
6 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 88 USA Drama
Romance
Orson Welles
Fred Fleck
Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead 7.7 21883
7 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 128 USA Biography
Drama
Romance
Sam Wood Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea 7.7 9693
8 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 126 USA Biography
Drama
Musical
Michael Curtiz James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning 7.7 13862
9 The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 112 USA Comedy
Romance
William Keighley Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis, Jimmy Durante 7.6 6594
10 Gentleman Jim 1942 104 USA Biography
Drama
Romance
Raoul Walsh Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, John Loder 7.6 3139

1943

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Hangmen Also Die! 1943 134 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Fritz Lang Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O’Keefe 7.5 4564
The Fallen Sparrow 1943 94 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Richard Wallace John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak, Patricia Morison, Martha O’Driscoll 6.7 1256
Journey Into Fear 1943 68 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Norman Foster
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Durant 6.5 3771
Calling Dr. Death 1943 63 USA Film-Noir
Horror
Mystery
Reginald Le Borg Lon Chaney Jr., Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, David Bruce, Ramsay Ames 6.1 773
Whispering Footsteps 1943 54 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Howard Bretherton John Hubbard, Rita Quigley, Joan Blair, Charles Halton, Cy Kendall 6.0 124

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 108 USA Thriller Alfred Hitchcock Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge 7.8 57997
2 The More the Merrier 1943 104 USA Comedy
Romance
War
George Stevens Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines, Bruce Bennett 7.7 5850
3 The Song of Bernadette 1943 156 USA Biography
Drama
Henry King William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Gladys Cooper 7.6 6049
4 This Land Is Mine 1943 103 USA Drama
War
Jean Renoir Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith 7.6 2849
5 The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek 1943 98 USA Comedy
Romance
War
Preston Sturges Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall 7.6 6603
6 Hangmen Also Die! 1943 134 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Fritz Lang Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O’Keefe 7.5 4564
7 Heaven Can Wait 1943 112 USA Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
Ernst Lubitsch Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar 7.5 9432
8 Old Acquaintance 1943 110 USA Drama
Romance
Vincent Sherman Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran 7.5 2948
9 Sahara 1943 97 USA Action
Drama
War
Zoltan Korda Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram 7.5 7776
10 So Proudly We Hail! 1943 126 USA Drama
Romance
War
Mark Sandrich Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves, Barbara Britton 7.5 1469

1944

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Double Indemnity 1944 107 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Billy Wilder Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather 8.3 139564
Laura 1944 88 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Otto Preminger Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson 8.0 41682
To Have and Have Not 1944 100 USA Adventure
Comedy
Film-Noir
Howard Hawks Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael 7.8 30249
The Woman in the Window 1944 107 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fritz Lang Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea 7.7 13623
Murder, My Sweet 1944 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edward Dmytryk Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki 7.6 11784
Phantom Lady 1944 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Siodmak Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez 7.2 4198
The Mask of Dimitrios 1944 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jean Negulesco Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen 7.2 3077
Ministry of Fear 1944 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fritz Lang Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram 7.2 6450
The Mark of the Whistler 1944 60 USA Drama
Film-Noir
William Castle Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Porter Hall, Paul Guilfoyle, John Calvert 6.8 213
Summer Storm 1944 106 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Douglas Sirk George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Anna Lee, Edward Everett Horton, Hugo Haas 6.7 417
Christmas Holiday 1944 93 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Siodmak Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf, Dean Harens, Gladys George 6.6 1162
When Strangers Marry 1944 67 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
William Castle Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum, Neil Hamilton, Lou Lubin 6.6 878
Dark Waters 1944 90 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
André De Toth Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, Elisha Cook Jr.  6.5 857
The Whistler 1944 59 USA Action
Crime
Film-Noir
William Castle Richard Dix, Gloria Stuart, J. Carrol Naish, Alan Dinehart, NA 6.5 763
Experiment Perilous 1944 91 USA Film-Noir
Romance
Thriller
Jacques Tourneur Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, Carl Esmond 6.4 1389
Strangers in the Night 1944 56 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Anthony Mann William Terry, Virginia Grey, Helene Thimig, Edith Barrett, Anne O’Neal 6.4 484
Guest in the House 1944 121 USA Drama
Film-Noir
John Brahm
John Cromwell
Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Aline MacMahon, Ruth Warrick, Scott McKay 6.2 695
Dead Man’s Eyes 1944 64 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Reginald Le Borg Lon Chaney Jr., Jean Parker, Paul Kelly, Thomas Gomez, Jonathan Hale 6.1 565
The Hairy Ape 1944 92 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Alfred Santell William Bendix, Susan Hayward, John Loder, Dorothy Comingore, Roman Bohnen 6.1 363
Dangerous Passage 1944 60 USA Drama
Film-Noir
William Berke Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Charles Arnt, Jack La Rue, John Eldredge 5.5 213
Voice in the Wind 1944 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Arthur Ripley Francis Lederer, Sigrid Gurie, J. Edward Bromberg, J. Carrol Naish, Alexander Granach 5.4 181
Lady in the Death House 1944 56 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Steve Sekely Jean Parker, Lionel Atwill, Douglas Fowley, Marcia Mae Jones, Robert Middlemass 5.3 285

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Double Indemnity 1944 107 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Billy Wilder Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather 8.3 139564
2 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 118 USA Comedy
Crime
Thriller
Frank Capra Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton 8.0 64192
3 Laura 1944 88 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Otto Preminger Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson 8.0 41682
4 Gaslight 1944 114 USA Crime
Drama
Mystery
George Cukor Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury 7.8 23596
5 To Have and Have Not 1944 100 USA Adventure
Comedy
Film-Noir
Howard Hawks Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael 7.8 30249
6 Mr. Skeffington 1944 146 USA Drama
Romance
Vincent Sherman Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring 7.7 5276
7 The Woman in the Window 1944 107 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fritz Lang Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea 7.7 13623
8 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 101 USA Comedy
War
Preston Sturges Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn 7.6 4135
9 Lifeboat 1944 97 USA Drama
War
Alfred Hitchcock Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak 7.6 25855
10 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 113 USA Comedy
Drama
Family
Vincente Minnelli Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames 7.6 19887

1945

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Mildred Pierce 1945 111 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Michael Curtiz Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth 8.0 22055
The Lost Weekend 1945 101 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Billy Wilder Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling 7.9 32799
Scarlet Street 1945 102 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Fritz Lang Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosalind Ivan 7.8 14047
Leave Her to Heaven 1945 110 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
John M. Stahl Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips 7.6 10595
Spellbound 1945 111 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
Romance
Alfred Hitchcock Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming 7.6 42377
Detour 1945 68 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edgar G. Ulmer Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan 7.4 14504
The House of Fear 1945 69 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Roy William Neill Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey, Paul Cavanagh 7.3 4332
Conflict 1945 86 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Curtis Bernhardt Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet, Rose Hobart, Charles Drake 7.2 3195
Fallen Angel 1945 98 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Otto Preminger Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere 7.1 4784
My Name Is Julia Ross 1945 65 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph H. Lewis Nina Foch, May Whitty, George Macready, Roland Varno, Anita Sharp-Bolster 7.1 2558
Lady on a Train 1945 94 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Charles David Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, Edward Everett Horton, Allen Jenkins, David Bruce 6.8 1561
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry 1945 80 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Siodmak George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines, Sara Allgood, Moyna MacGill 6.8 1261
Danger Signal 1945 78 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Florey Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Richard Erdman, Rosemary DeCamp, Bruce Bennett 6.7 677
The Great Flamarion 1945 78 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Anthony Mann Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Steve Barclay, Lester Allen 6.6 1011
The House on 92nd Street 1945 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Henry Hathaway William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll 6.6 2596
Jealousy 1945 71 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Gustav Machatý John Loder, Jane Randolph, Karen Morley, Nils Asther, Hugo Haas 6.6 156
Two O’Clock Courage 1945 68 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Anthony Mann Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews, Roland Drew 6.5 819
Voice of the Whistler 1945 60 USA Drama
Film-Noir
William Castle Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell, Tom Kennedy 6.4 415
Johnny Angel 1945 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edwin L. Marin George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Lowell Gilmore, Hoagy Carmichael 6.3 863
The Power of the Whistler 1945 66 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Romance
Lew Landers Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Loren Tindall, Tala Birell 6.3 458
Allotment Wives 1945 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Nigh Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael, Teala Loring 6.2 363
Strange Illusion 1945 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edgar G. Ulmer Jimmy Lydon, Warren William, Sally Eilers, Regis Toomey, Charles Arnt 6.2 855
Pillow of Death 1945 66 USA Film-Noir
Horror
Mystery
Wallace Fox Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Edward Bromberg, Rosalind Ivan, Clara Blandick 6.1 467
The Unseen 1945 80 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Lewis Allen Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks, Isobel Elsom 6.1 344
Apology for Murder 1945 67 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Sam Newfield Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks, Charles D. Brown, Pierre Watkin 6.0 213
The Lady Confesses 1945 64 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Sam Newfield Mary Beth Hughes, Hugh Beaumont, Edmund MacDonald, Claudia Drake, Emmett Vogan 6.0 279
The Spider 1945 63 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Robert D. Webb Richard Conte, Faye Marlowe, Kurt Kreuger, John Harvey, Martin Kosleck 6.0 117
Escape in the Fog 1945 63 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Budd Boetticher Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright, Konstantin Shayne, Ivan Triesault 5.9 651
Bewitched 1945 65 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Arch Oboler Phyllis Thaxter, Edmund Gwenn, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Addison Richards, Kathleen Lockhart 5.6 502
Crime, Inc.  1945 75 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lew Landers Leo Carrillo, Tom Neal, Martha Tilton, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell 5.4 129

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Mildred Pierce 1945 111 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Michael Curtiz Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth 8.0 22055
2 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 129 USA Drama
Romance
Elia Kazan Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason 8.0 6964
3 The Lost Weekend 1945 101 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Billy Wilder Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling 7.9 32799
4 Scarlet Street 1945 102 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Fritz Lang Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosalind Ivan 7.8 14047
5 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 110 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
John M. Stahl Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips 7.6 10595
6 Spellbound 1945 111 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
Romance
Alfred Hitchcock Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming 7.6 42377
7 And Then There Were None 1945 97 USA Crime
Drama
Mystery
René Clair Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez 7.5 12468
8 The Corn Is Green 1945 115 USA Drama Irving Rapper Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock 7.5 2376
9 The Enchanted Cottage 1945 91 USA Drama
Fantasy
Romance
John Cromwell Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick, Spring Byington 7.5 2685
10 Our Vines Have Tender Grapes 1945 105 USA Drama
Family
Roy Rowland Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O’Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford, Agnes Moorehead 7.5 1686

1946

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Big Sleep 1946 114 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Howard Hawks Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone 7.9 77516
Notorious 1946 102 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Alfred Hitchcock Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin 7.9 90400
The Killers 1946 103 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Siodmak Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene 7.8 18593
Gilda 1946 110 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Charles Vidor Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray 7.7 27180
The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 113 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Tay Garnett Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames 7.5 18084
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946 116 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Lewis Milestone Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson 7.4 8145
The Stranger 1946 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Orson Welles Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long 7.4 23436
The Locket 1946 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Brahm Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, Gene Raymond, Sharyn Moffett 7.2 2320
The Verdict 1946 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Don Siegel Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring, George Coulouris, Rosalind Ivan 7.2 1770
The Dark Corner 1946 99 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Henry Hathaway Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Kurt Kreuger 7.1 3939
The Dark Mirror 1946 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Siodmak Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans 7.1 4143
Deception 1946 115 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Irving Rapper Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, John Abbott, Benson Fong 7.1 2985
Somewhere in the Night 1946 110 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph L. Mankiewicz John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Josephine Hutchinson 7.1 2414
Black Angel 1946 81 USA Adventure
Crime
Film-Noir
Roy William Neill Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling 7.0 2623
Nobody Lives Forever 1946 100 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jean Negulesco John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan, Faye Emerson, George Coulouris 7.0 1302
Three Strangers 1946 92 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jean Negulesco Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring, Robert Shayne 7.0 1784
Terror by Night 1946 60 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Roy William Neill Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Renee Godfrey 6.9 5290
Deadline at Dawn 1946 83 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
Romance
Harold Clurman
William Cameron Menzies
Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams, Joseph Calleia, Osa Massen 6.8 1613
Decoy 1946 76 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Bernhard Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard 6.8 1466
The Man I Love 1946 96 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Music
Raoul Walsh Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Bruce Bennett 6.8 852
Night Editor 1946 68 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Henry Levin William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Coulter Irwin, Charles D. Brown 6.7 601
The Strange Woman 1946 100 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Edgar G. Ulmer
Douglas Sirk
Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke 6.7 1687
The Chase 1946 86 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Arthur Ripley Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt 6.6 1496
Cloak and Dagger 1946 106 USA Adventure
Film-Noir
Romance
Fritz Lang Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda, Vladimir Sokoloff, J. Edward Bromberg 6.6 2408
Mysterious Intruder 1946 61 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
William Castle Richard Dix, Barton MacLane, Nina Vale, Regis Toomey, Helen Mowery 6.6 420
Lady in the Lake 1946 105 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Robert Montgomery Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames 6.6 4916
Crack-Up 1946 93 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Irving Reis Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins, Wallace Ford 6.5 1249
Nocturne 1946 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edwin L. Marin George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell 6.5 1305
The Secret of the Whistler 1946 65 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
George Sherman Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie 6.5 346
Smooth as Silk 1946 64 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Charles Barton Kent Taylor, Virginia Grey, Milburn Stone, John Litel, Jane Adams 6.5 106
Suspense 1946 101 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Frank Tuttle Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville, Albert Dekker, Eugene Pallette 6.5 330
Undercurrent 1946 116 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Vincente Minnelli Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main 6.5 2683
Behind Green Lights 1946 64 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Otto Brower Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane, Mary Anderson, John Ireland 6.4 657
The Madonna’s Secret 1946 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Wilhelm Thiele Francis Lederer, Gail Patrick, Ann Rutherford, Edward Ashley, Linda Stirling 6.4 166
Strange Impersonation 1946 68 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Anthony Mann Brenda Marshall, William Gargan, Hillary Brooke, George Chandler, Ruth Ford 6.4 630
Shock 1946 70 USA Film-Noir
Thriller
Alfred L. Werker Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw, Stephen Dunne 6.3 2275
So Dark the Night 1946 71 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph H. Lewis Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden, Ann Codee, Egon Brecher 6.3 1083
Step by Step 1946 62 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Phil Rosen Lawrence Tierney, Anne Jeffreys, Lowell Gilmore, Myrna Dell, Harry Harvey 6.3 329
The Inner Circle 1946 57 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
Philip Ford Adele Mara, Warren Douglas, William Frawley, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Christine 6.1 339
Shadow of a Woman 1946 78 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Joseph Santley Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince, John Alvin, Becky Brown 6.0 236
Shadowed 1946 70 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Sturges Anita Louise, Lloyd Corrigan, Michael Duane, Mark Roberts, Doris Houck 6.0 171
Specter of the Rose 1946 90 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Music
Ben Hecht Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen, Lionel Stander 6.0 197
They Made Me a Killer 1946 64 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William C. Thomas Robert Lowery, Barbara Britton, Lola Lane, Frank Albertson, Elisabeth Risdon 6.0 229
Inside Job 1946 65 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jean Yarbrough Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Alan Curtis, Milburn Stone, Samuel S. Hinds 5.9 138
Fear 1946 68 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Alfred Zeisler Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne, Francis Pierlot, Nestor Paiva 5.7 295
The Mask of Diijon 1946 73 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Lew Landers Erich von Stroheim, Jeanne Bates, William Wright, Denise Vernac, Edward Van Sloan 5.7 175
Whistle Stop 1946 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Léonide Moguy George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen, Tom Conway, Jorja Curtright 5.6 960
Accomplice 1946 68 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
Thriller
Walter Colmes Richard Arlen, Veda Ann Borg, Tom Dugan, Archie Twitchell, Marjorie Manners 5.4 124
Flight to Nowhere 1946 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Rowland Alan Curtis, Evelyn Ankers, Micheline Cheirel, Jack Holt, Jerome Cowan 4.6 194

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946 130 USA Drama
Family
Fantasy
Frank Capra James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers 8.6 388310
2 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 170 USA Drama
Romance
War
William Wyler Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo 8.0 56280
3 The Big Sleep 1946 114 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Howard Hawks Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone 7.9 77516
4 Notorious 1946 102 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Alfred Hitchcock Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin 7.9 90400
5 The Killers 1946 103 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Siodmak Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene 7.8 18593
6 My Darling Clementine 1946 97 USA Biography
Drama
Western
John Ford Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan 7.8 21122
7 Gilda 1946 110 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Charles Vidor Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray 7.7 27180
8 The Time of Their Lives 1946 82 USA Comedy
Fantasy
Romance
Charles Barton Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, John Shelton 7.7 2908
9 To Each His Own 1946 122 USA Drama
Romance
Mitchell Leisen Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin 7.7 2300
10 Cluny Brown 1946 100 USA Comedy
Romance
War
Ernst Lubitsch Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner 7.5 2891

1947

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Out of the Past 1947 97 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jacques Tourneur Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb 8.0 31759
Body and Soul 1947 104 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Robert Rossen John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad 7.6 4226
Brute Force 1947 98 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jules Dassin Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth 7.6 8734
The Lady from Shanghai 1947 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Orson Welles Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia 7.6 26017
Dark Passage 1947 106 USA Film-Noir
Thriller
Delmer Daves Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D’Andrea 7.5 17241
Ride the Pink Horse 1947 101 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Montgomery Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark 7.3 2565
Boomerang! 1947 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Elia Kazan Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams, Arthur Kennedy 7.2 3964
Born to Kill 1947 92 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Wise Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry, Audrey Long 7.2 4403
Nora Prentiss 1947 111 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Vincent Sherman Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda, Rosemary DeCamp 7.2 1430
Possessed 1947 108 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Curtis Bernhardt Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges 7.2 4433
They Made Me a Fugitive 1947 101 UK Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Alberto Cavalcanti Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, Rene Ray, Mary Merrall 7.2 1280
The Unsuspected 1947 103 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Michael Curtiz Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield 7.2 2370
Dead Reckoning 1947 100 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Cromwell Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince 7.1 6542
They Won’t Believe Me 1947 95 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Irving Pichel Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers 7.1 1879
The Web 1947 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Michael Gordon Ella Raines, Edmond O’Brien, William Bendix, Vincent Price, Maria Palmer 7.1 760
A Double Life 1947 104 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
George Cukor Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Edmond O’Brien, Shelley Winters, Ray Collins 7.0 2954
Framed 1947 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Wallace Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Karen Morley 7.0 1274
High Wall 1947 99 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Curtis Bernhardt Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall, Dorothy Patrick, H.B. Warner 7.0 1401
I Walk Alone 1947 97 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Byron Haskin Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey, Kristine Miller 7.0 2329
Lured 1947 102 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Douglas Sirk George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke 7.0 2962
T-Men 1947 92 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Anthony Mann Dennis O’Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart 7.0 3073
The Devil Thumbs a Ride 1947 62 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Felix E. Feist Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford, Andrew Tombes 6.9 754
The Lost Moment 1947 89 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Martin Gabel Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring, Eduardo Ciannelli 6.9 923
Repeat Performance 1947 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Alfred L. Werker Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway, Richard Basehart 6.9 773
The Two Mrs. Carrolls 1947 99 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Peter Godfrey Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Isobel Elsom 6.9 3467
Desperate 1947 73 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Anthony Mann Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Douglas Fowley, William Challee 6.8 1900
Johnny O’Clock 1947 96 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Rossen Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Drew, Nina Foch 6.8 1492
The Red House 1947 100 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Delmer Daves Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun, Allene Roberts 6.8 3287
The Shop at Sly Corner 1947 91 UK Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
George King Oskar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Manning Whiley, Kathleen Harrison 6.8 153
The Unfaithful 1947 109 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Vincent Sherman Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jerome Cowan 6.8 982
Secret Beyond the Door… 1947 99 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Fritz Lang Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Barbara O’Neil, Natalie Schafer 6.8 4300
Blind Spot 1947 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Gordon Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray, James Bell, William Forrest 6.7 135
Desert Fury 1947 96 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis Allen John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey, Mary Astor 6.7 1256
Railroaded! 1947 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Anthony Mann John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, Jane Randolph, Ed Kelly 6.7 1385
The Thirteenth Hour 1947 65 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
William Clemens Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey 6.6 161
The Gangster 1947 84 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Gordon Wiles Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring, Akim Tamiroff, Harry Morgan 6.6 730
High Tide 1947 72 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
John Reinhardt Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop, Anabel Shaw, Regis Toomey 6.6 103
The Long Night 1947 101 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Anatole Litvak Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman 6.6 1399
The Pretender 1947 69 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
W. Lee Wilder Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig, Charles Drake, Alan Carney, Linda Stirling 6.6 297
The Brasher Doubloon 1947 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Brahm George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts, Fritz Kortner 6.5 892
Dishonored Lady 1947 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Stevenson Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O’Keefe, John Loder, William Lundigan, Morris Carnovsky 6.5 1053
Saigon 1947 93 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Leslie Fenton Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell, Luther Adler 6.5 229
Fear in the Night 1947 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Maxwell Shane Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Ann Doran, Kay Scott, Charles Victor 6.4 1313
The Guilty 1947 71 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
John Reinhardt Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey, John Litel, Wally Cassell 6.4 162
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman 1947 103 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Music
Stuart Heisler Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt, Eddie Albert, Carl Esmond 6.4 1237
The Woman on the Beach 1947 71 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Jean Renoir Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie, Walter Sande 6.4 1884
For You I Die 1947 76 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Reinhardt Cathy Downs, Paul Langton, Mischa Auer, Roman Bohnen, Jane Weeks 6.2 176
The Other Love 1947 95 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
André De Toth Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte, Gilbert Roland, Joan Lorring 6.2 624
Backlash 1947 66 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Eugene Forde Jean Rogers, Richard Travis, Larry J. Blake, John Eldredge, Leonard Strong 6.1 310
Bury Me Dead 1947 68 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Bernard Vorhaus Cathy O’Donnell, June Lockhart, Hugh Beaumont, Mark Daniels, Greg McClure 6.1 234
Blackmail 1947 67 USA Action
Crime
Film-Noir
Lesley Selander William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez, Grant Withers, Stephanie Bachelor 5.9 155
The Arnelo Affair 1947 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Arch Oboler John Hodiak, George Murphy, Frances Gifford, Dean Stockwell, Eve Arden 5.7 257
Big Town After Dark 1947 69 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William C. Thomas Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis, Vince Barnett 5.7 142
Shoot to Kill 1947 64 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Berke Russell Wade, Luana Walters, Edmund MacDonald, Robert Kent, Vince Barnett 5.6 472
Violence 1947 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Bernhard Nancy Coleman, Michael O’Shea, Sheldon Leonard, Peter Whitney, Emory Parnell 5.6 168

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Out of the Past 1947 97 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jacques Tourneur Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb 8.0 31759
2 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 104 USA Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown 7.9 15297
3 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 96 USA Comedy
Drama
Family
George Seaton Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood 7.9 39089
4 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 124 USA Comedy
Crime
Drama
Charles Chaplin Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz 7.9 15450
5 It Happened on Fifth Avenue 1947 116 USA Comedy
Music
Romance
Roy Del Ruth Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale Storm 7.7 3323
6 The Bishop’s Wife 1947 109 USA Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
Henry Koster Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason 7.6 13635
7 Body and Soul 1947 104 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Robert Rossen John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad 7.6 4226
8 Brute Force 1947 98 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jules Dassin Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth 7.6 8734
9 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Orson Welles Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia 7.6 26017
10 Dark Passage 1947 106 USA Film-Noir
Thriller
Delmer Daves Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D’Andrea 7.5 17241

1948

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Big Clock 1948 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Farrow Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson 7.7 7572
The Naked City 1948 96 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jules Dassin Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy 7.6 11788
They Live by Night 1948 95 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Romance
Nicholas Ray Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Helen Craig 7.5 6856
All My Sons 1948 94 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Irving Reis Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Louisa Horton, Howard Duff 7.4 1592
Call Northside 777 1948 112 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Henry Hathaway James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde 7.4 7800
Sorry, Wrong Number 1948 89 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Anatole Litvak Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea 7.4 9456
Force of Evil 1948 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Abraham Polonsky John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Howland Chamberlain, Roy Roberts 7.3 5670
Road House 1948 95 USA Action
Drama
Film-Noir
Jean Negulesco Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark, O.Z. Whitehead 7.3 2293
Cry of the City 1948 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Siodmak Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters, Betty Garde 7.2 2295
He Walked by Night 1948 79 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Alfred L. Werker
Anthony Mann
Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James Cardwell 7.2 4911
Pitfall 1948 86 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
André De Toth Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr, John Litel 7.2 2933
Raw Deal 1948 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Anthony Mann Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr 7.2 4017
Night Has a Thousand Eyes 1948 81 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
John Farrow Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund, Virginia Bruce, William Demarest 7.1 1044
The Street with No Name 1948 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Keighley Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence, Ed Begley 7.1 2626
Larceny 1948 89 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
George Sherman John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters, Dorothy Hart 7.0 253
An Act of Murder 1948 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Michael Gordon Fredric March, Edmond O’Brien, Florence Eldridge, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges 7.0 552
To the Ends of the Earth 1948 109 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Robert Stevenson Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Maylia, Ludwig Donath, Vladimir Sokoloff 7.0 628
I Love Trouble 1948 93 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
S. Sylvan Simon Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter, Adele Jergens, Glenda Farrell 6.9 372
Ruthless 1948 104 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Edgar G. Ulmer Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer 6.9 1009
Berlin Express 1948 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jacques Tourneur Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Robert Coote 6.8 2856
Hollow Triumph 1948 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Steve Sekely
Paul Henreid
Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen 6.8 2261
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 1948 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Norman Foster Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell, Aminta Dyne 6.8 998
Sleep, My Love 1948 97 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Douglas Sirk Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Rita Johnson, George Coulouris 6.8 1444
The Velvet Touch 1948 100 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Jack Gage Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet, Leon Ames 6.8 838
A Woman’s Vengeance 1948 96 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Zoltan Korda Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick 6.7 348
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes 1948 70 USA Mystery
Film-Noir
Crime
William Nigh Don Castle, Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey, Charles D. Brown, Rory Mallinson 6.7 199
Open Secret 1948 68 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Reinhardt John Ireland, Jane Randolph, Sheldon Leonard, Roman Bohnen, George Tyne 6.7 181
The Saxon Charm 1948 88 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Claude Binyon Robert Montgomery, Susan Hayward, John Payne, Audrey Totter, Harry Morgan 6.7 172
Behind Locked Doors 1948 62 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Budd Boetticher Lucille Bremer, Richard Carlson, Douglas Fowley, Ralf Harolde, Thomas Browne Henry 6.6 770
The Hunted 1948 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Bernhard Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin, Edna Holland, Russell Hicks 6.6 436
Whiplash 1948 91 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Lewis Seiler Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jeffrey Lynn 6.6 339
Bodyguard 1948 62 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Fleischer Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, June Clayworth, Elisabeth Risdon 6.5 843
Race Street 1948 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edwin L. Marin George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan 6.5 509
The Return of the Whistler 1948 60 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
D. Ross Lederman Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane, James Cardwell, Ann Shoemaker 6.4 337
Shed No Tears 1948 70 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jean Yarbrough Wallace Ford, June Vincent, Mark Roberts, Frank Albertson, Dick Hogan 6.4 267
The Sign of the Ram 1948 84 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
John Sturges Susan Peters, Alexander Knox, Phyllis Thaxter, Peggy Ann Garner, Ron Randell 6.4 488
The Amazing Mr. X 1948 78 USA Film-Noir
Horror
Thriller
Bernard Vorhaus Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell, Richard Carlson, Donald Curtis 6.4 1419
Walk a Crooked Mile 1948 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Gordon Douglas Louis Hayward, Dennis O’Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Carl Esmond, Onslow Stevens 6.4 442
The Dark Past 1948 73 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Rudolph Maté William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb, Adele Jergens, Stephen Dunne 6.3 1159
Million Dollar Weekend 1948 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Gene Raymond Gene Raymond, Osa Massen, Francis Lederer, Robert Warwick, Patricia Shay 6.2 238
Money Madness 1948 73 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
Sam Newfield Hugh Beaumont, Frances Rafferty, Harlan Warde, Cecil Weston, Ida Moore 6.2 157
Close-Up 1948 76 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Donohue Alan Baxter, Virginia Gilmore, Richard Kollmar, Loring Smith, Phillip Huston 6.1 102
Inner Sanctum 1948 62 USA Film-Noir
Horror
Mystery
Lew Landers Charles Russell, Mary Beth Hughes, Dale Belding, Billy House, Fritz Leiber 6.1 799
No Orchids for Miss Blandish 1948 102 UK Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
St. John Legh Clowes Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers, Walter Crisham, MacDonald Parke 6.0 515
Blonde Ice 1948 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Bernhard Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent, Michael Whalen, James Griffith 6.0 893
Parole, Inc.  1948 71 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Alfred Zeisler Michael O’Shea, Turhan Bey, Evelyn Ankers, Virginia Lee, Charles Bradstreet 5.7 288

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 87 USA Drama
Romance
Max Ophüls Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith 8.0 10756
2 Rope 1948 80 USA Crime
Drama
Mystery
Alfred Hitchcock Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger, Edith Evanson, Douglas Dick 8.0 125949
3 I Remember Mama 1948 134 USA Drama
Family
George Stevens Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka, Philip Dorn, Cedric Hardwicke 7.9 4899
4 Key Largo 1948 100 USA Action
Crime
Drama
John Huston Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor 7.8 36285
5 Red River 1948 133 USA Action
Adventure
Drama
Howard Hawks
Arthur Rosson
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray 7.8 27426
6 The Big Clock 1948 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Farrow Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson 7.7 7572
7 Johnny Belinda 1948 102 USA Drama Jean Negulesco Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead, Stephen McNally 7.7 4160
8 Portrait of Jennie 1948 86 USA Drama
Fantasy
Mystery
William Dieterle Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway 7.7 6063
9 The Naked City 1948 96 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jules Dassin Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy 7.6 11788
10 The Snake Pit 1948 108 USA Drama
Mystery
Anatole Litvak Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan 7.6 6666

1949

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Third Man 1949 104 UK Film-Noir
Mystery
Thriller
Carol Reed Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee 8.1 155228
The Set-Up 1949 73 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Sport
Robert Wise Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford 7.9 7515
Thieves’ Highway 1949 94 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Jules Dassin Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie 7.6 5154
Act of Violence 1949 82 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Fred Zinnemann Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter 7.5 4324
All the King’s Men 1949 110 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Rossen Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek, Mercedes McCambridge 7.5 12893
Champion 1949 99 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Mark Robson Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman 7.4 3620
Obsession 1949 96 UK Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Edward Dmytryk Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne, James Harcourt 7.4 1601
House of Strangers 1949 101 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Paul Valentine 7.4 2854
The Window 1949 73 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Ted Tetzlaff Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Bobby Driscoll 7.4 3363
Tension 1949 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Berry Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Gough 7.3 2435
Too Late for Tears 1949 99 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Byron Haskin Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller 7.3 3570
D.O.A. 1949 83 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Rudolph Maté Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Garland, Lynn Baggett 7.3 10493
The Reckless Moment 1949 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Max Ophüls James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O’Neill, Shepperd Strudwick 7.2 4175
Alias Nick Beal 1949 93 USA Drama
Fantasy
Film-Noir
John Farrow Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, George Macready, Fred Clark 7.1 729
Border Incident 1949 94 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Anthony Mann Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell, Arnold Moss 7.1 2134
Impact 1949 111 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Arthur Lubin Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Anna May Wong 7.1 3040
Caught 1949 88 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Max Ophüls James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, Frank Ferguson, Curt Bois 7.0 3126
Beyond the Forest 1949 97 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
King Vidor Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman, Minor Watson 7.0 2115
The Big Steal 1949 71 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Romance
Don Siegel Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro 7.0 4030
Flamingo Road 1949 94 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Michael Curtiz Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian, Gladys George 7.0 2327
The Story of Molly X 1949 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Crane Wilbur June Havoc, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Connie Gilchrist, Cathy Lewis 7.0 126
The File on Thelma Jordon 1949 100 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Siodmak Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges 6.9 1965
The Accused 1949 101 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
William Dieterle Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Dick 6.8 737
Knock on Any Door 1949 100 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Nicholas Ray Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts, Candy Toxton 6.8 2968
Rope of Sand 1949 104 USA Adventure
Film-Noir
William Dieterle Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Corinne Calvet 6.8 1196
Strange Bargain 1949 68 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Will Price Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Harry Morgan, Katherine Emery, Richard Gaines 6.8 330
The Crooked Way 1949 90 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Florey John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams, Percy Helton 6.7 923
Johnny Stool Pigeon 1949 76 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Castle Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Tony Curtis, John McIntire 6.7 381
Mr. Soft Touch 1949 93 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Gordon Douglas
Henry Levin
Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride 6.7 520
The Threat 1949 66 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Felix E. Feist Michael O’Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Julie Bishop, Frank Conroy 6.7 914
The Undercover Man 1949 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph H. Lewis Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore, Barry Kelley, David Bauer 6.7 777
The Bribe 1949 98 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Z. Leonard
Vincente Minnelli
Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, John Hodiak 6.6 1567
City Across the River 1949 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Maxwell Shane Stephen McNally, Thelma Ritter, Luis Van Rooten, Jeff Corey, Sharon McManus 6.6 303
Cover Up 1949 83 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
Alfred E. Green William Bendix, Dennis O’Keefe, Barbara Britton, Art Baker, Ann E. Todd 6.6 633
Flaxy Martin 1949 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard L. Bare Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, Tom D’Andrea, Helen Westcott 6.6 471
The Lady Gambles 1949 99 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Michael Gordon Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett, John Hoyt 6.6 572
Malaya 1949 98 USA Adventure
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Thorpe Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Valentina Cortese, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak 6.6 1078
Manhandled 1949 97 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis R. Foster Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Dan Duryea, Irene Hervey, Phillip Reed 6.6 601
Scene of the Crime 1949 94 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Roy Rowland Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria DeHaven, Tom Drake, Leon Ames 6.6 1053
Shockproof 1949 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Douglas Sirk Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey, Esther Minciotti, Howard St. John 6.6 1366
Take One False Step 1949 94 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Chester Erskine William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt, Dorothy Hart, James Gleason 6.6 314
Undertow 1949 71 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Castle Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Peggy Dow, Bruce Bennett 6.6 402
Abandoned 1949 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph M. Newman Dennis O’Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler, Meg Randall, Raymond Burr 6.5 283
Chicago Deadline 1949 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis Allen Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Irene Hervey, Arthur Kennedy 6.5 263
The Clay Pigeon 1949 63 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Fleischer Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine, Richard Loo, Frank Fenton 6.5 715
Follow Me Quietly 1949 60 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Fleischer William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey, Nestor Paiva, Charles D. Brown 6.5 1479
Red Light 1949 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Roy Del Ruth George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart, Raymond Burr, Harry Morgan 6.4 818
Tokyo Joe 1949 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Stuart Heisler Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa, Jerome Courtland 6.4 1790
Johnny Allegro 1949 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Ted Tetzlaff George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready, Will Geer, Gloria Henry 6.3 469
Trapped 1949 78 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Fleischer Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd, Russ Conway 6.3 978
Treasure of Monte Cristo 1949 76 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Berke Glenn Langan, Adele Jergens, Steve Brodie, Bobby Jordan, Michael Whalen 6.2 100
A Dangerous Profession 1949 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Ted Tetzlaff George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien, Bill Williams, Jim Backus 6.1 559
The Judge 1949 69 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Elmer Clifton Milburn Stone, Katherine DeMille, Paul Guilfoyle, Stanley Waxman, Norman Budd 6.1 101
Port of New York 1949 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Laslo Benedek Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens, Yul Brynner, Arthur Blake 6.1 749
A Woman’s Secret 1949 84 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Nicholas Ray Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Bill Williams, Victor Jory 6.1 1389
‘C’-Man 1949 75 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Lerner Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Harry Landers, Lottie Elwen, Rene Paul 6.0 213
The Woman on Pier 13 1949 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Stevenson Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Thomas Gomez, Janis Carter 6.0 903
Jigsaw 1949 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fletcher Markle Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick, Marc Lawrence, Winifred Lenihan 5.7 699
The Red Menace 1949 81 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
R.G. Springsteen Robert Rockwell, Hannelore Axman, Betty Lou Gerson, Barbra Fuller, Shepard Menken 5.0 162

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 The Heiress 1949 115 USA Drama
Romance
William Wyler Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown 8.1 13301
2 White Heat 1949 114 USA Action
Crime
Drama
Raoul Walsh James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran 8.1 28955
3 The Set-Up 1949 73 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Sport
Robert Wise Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford 7.9 7515
4 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 103 USA Drama
Romance
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas 7.7 8279
5 Twelve O’Clock High 1949 132 USA Drama
War
Henry King Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger 7.7 11992
6 Thieves’ Highway 1949 94 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Jules Dassin Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie 7.6 5154
7 Act of Violence 1949 82 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Fred Zinnemann Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter 7.5 4324
8 Adam’s Rib 1949 101 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
George Cukor Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne 7.5 19076
9 All the King’s Men 1949 110 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Rossen Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek, Mercedes McCambridge 7.5 12893
10 Intruder in the Dust 1949 87 USA Crime
Drama
Clarence Brown David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez, Porter Hall, Elizabeth Patterson 7.5 1902

1950

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Sunset Blvd. 1950 110 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Billy Wilder William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark 8.4 195789
In a Lonely Place 1950 94 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Nicholas Ray Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith 8.0 25368
The Asphalt Jungle 1950 112 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Huston Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe 7.9 23441
Night and the City 1950 101 UK
USA
Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Jules Dassin Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan 7.9 11705
Caged 1950 96 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Cromwell Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson, Betty Garde 7.7 3424
Gun Crazy 1950 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph H. Lewis Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel Shaw 7.6 11210
The Breaking Point 1950 97 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Michael Curtiz John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford 7.5 2730
No Man of Her Own 1950 98 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mitchell Leisen Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger 7.4 1751
No Way Out 1950 106 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney Poitier, Mildred Joanne Smith 7.4 4305
Panic in the Streets 1950 96 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Elia Kazan Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel 7.3 6919
Woman on the Run 1950 77 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Norman Foster Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks 7.3 2908
The Damned Don’t Cry 1950 103 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Vincent Sherman Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Hugh Sanders 7.2 2327
The Sound of Fury 1950 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Cy Endfield Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges, Katherine Locke 7.2 1360
House by the River 1950 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fritz Lang Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Shoemaker 7.1 2917
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 1950 102 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Gordon Douglas James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler 7.1 1735
Mystery Street 1950 93 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Sturges Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, Marshall Thompson 7.1 2674
Side Street 1950 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Anthony Mann Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly, Jean Hagen 7.1 2450
Stage Fright 1950 110 UK Film-Noir
Mystery
Thriller
Alfred Hitchcock Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim 7.1 12358
Shakedown 1950 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Pevney Howard Duff, Brian Donlevy, Peggy Dow, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett 7.0 179
The Underworld Story 1950 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Cy Endfield Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva, Michael O’Shea 7.0 894
Woman in Hiding 1950 92 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Michael Gordon Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, John Litel 6.9 651
Outside the Wall 1950 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Crane Wilbur Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell, Signe Hasso, Dorothy Hart, Joseph Pevney 6.9 105
Whirlpool 1950 98 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Otto Preminger Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O’Neil 6.8 3607
Highway 301 1950 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Andrew L. Stone Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Robert Webber 6.8 450
The Man Who Cheated Himself 1950 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Felix E. Feist Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Lisa Howard, Harlan Warde 6.8 1691
One Way Street 1950 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Hugo Fregonese James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea, Basil Ruysdael, William Conrad 6.8 375
Outrage 1950 75 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Ida Lupino Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond, Lillian Hamilton 6.8 1009
The Secret Fury 1950 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Mel Ferrer Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl, Paul Kelly, Philip Ober 6.8 644
The Sleeping City 1950 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
George Sherman Richard Conte, Coleen Gray, Richard Taber, John Alexander, Peggy Dow 6.8 380
Union Station 1950 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Rudolph Maté William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald, Lyle Bettger, Jan Sterling 6.8 2220
Where Danger Lives 1950 82 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
John Farrow Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O’Sullivan, Charles Kemper 6.8 2426
Born to Be Bad 1950 94 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Nicholas Ray Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott, Joan Leslie, Mel Ferrer 6.7 1933
Dark City 1950 98 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Dieterle Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don DeFore 6.7 1877
Dial 1119 1950 75 USA Film-Noir
Thriller
Gerald Mayer Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene, Leon Ames 6.7 847
The Lawless 1950 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Losey Macdonald Carey, Gail Russell, Johnny Sands, Lee Patrick, John Hoyt 6.7 427
Shadow on the Wall 1950 84 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Pat Jackson Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau, Nancy Reagan, Kristine Miller 6.7 1005
Backfire 1950 91 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Vincent Sherman Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien, Gordon MacRae 6.6 1030
Between Midnight and Dawn 1950 89 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Gordon Douglas Mark Stevens, Edmond O’Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka, Gale Robbins 6.6 410
Quicksand 1950 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Irving Pichel Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre, Taylor Holmes 6.6 1954
Appointment with Danger 1950 90 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis Allen Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jan Sterling, Jack Webb 6.6 1042
Southside 1-1000 1950 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Boris Ingster Don DeFore, Andrea King, George Tobias, Barry Kelley, Morris Ankrum 6.5 158
Walk Softly, Stranger 1950 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Stevenson Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington, Paul Stewart, Jack Paar 6.5 767
Black Hand 1950 92 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Richard Thorpe Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli, Marc Lawrence, Frank Puglia 6.4 724
Deported 1950 89 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Siodmak Märta Torén, Jeff Chandler, Claude Dauphin, Marina Berti, Richard Rober 6.4 103
Edge of Doom 1950 99 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mark Robson Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Robert Keith, Paul Stewart 6.4 467
Hunt the Man Down 1950 69 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
George Archainbaud Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson, Willard Parker, Carla Balenda 6.4 540
I Was a Shoplifter 1950 74 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Charles Lamont Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Tony Curtis, Charles Drake 6.4 207
The Killer That Stalked New York 1950 79 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Earl McEvoy Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop, Dorothy Malone, Lola Albright 6.4 1073
This Side of the Law 1950 74 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Richard L. Bare Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige, Robert Douglas, John Alvin 6.4 210
The Second Woman 1950 91 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
James V. Kern Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates, Morris Carnovsky 6.4 971
A Lady Without Passport 1950 74 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph H. Lewis Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready, Steven Geray 6.2 728
Once a Thief 1950 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
W. Lee Wilder Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald, Lon Chaney Jr., Iris Adrian 6.2 157
Borderline 1950 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William A. Seiter Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr, José Torvay, Morris Ankrum 6.1 1101
Double Deal 1950 64 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Abby Berlin Marie Windsor, Richard Denning, Taylor Holmes, Fay Baker, James Griffith 6.1 195
Gambling House 1950 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Ted Tetzlaff Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix, Zachary Charles, Basil Ruysdael 6.1 375
Guilty Bystander 1950 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Lerner Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Mary Boland, Sam Levene, J. Edward Bromberg 6.1 463
The Tattooed Stranger 1950 64 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edward Montagne John Miles, Patricia Barry, Walter Kinsella, Frank Tweddell, Rod McLennan 6.1 843
The Sun Sets at Dawn 1950 71 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Paul Sloane Sally Parr, Patrick Waltz, Walter Reed, Lee Frederick, Houseley Stevenson 6.1 190
Destination Murder 1950 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edward L. Cahn Joyce Mackenzie, Stanley Clements, Hurd Hatfield, Albert Dekker, Myrna Dell 6.0 598

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Sunset Blvd. 1950 110 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Billy Wilder William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark 8.4 195789
2 All About Eve 1950 138 USA Drama Joseph L. Mankiewicz Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill 8.2 117634
3 In a Lonely Place 1950 94 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Nicholas Ray Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith 8.0 25368
4 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 112 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Huston Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe 7.9 23441
5 Harvey 1950 104 USA Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
Henry Koster Wallace Ford, William H. Lynn, Victoria Horne, Jesse White, Cecil Kellaway 7.9 51964
6 Caged 1950 96 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Cromwell Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson, Betty Garde 7.7 3424
7 The Gunfighter 1950 85 USA Western Henry King Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, Karl Malden 7.7 9324
8 Born Yesterday 1950 103 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
George Cukor Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden, Howard St. John, Frank Otto 7.6 9662
9 Gun Crazy 1950 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph H. Lewis Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel Shaw 7.6 11210
10 Winchester ’73 1950 92 USA Action
Drama
Western
Anthony Mann James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Millard Mitchell 7.6 16367

1951

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Ace in the Hole 1951 111 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Billy Wilder Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady 8.1 30541
Strangers on a Train 1951 101 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Alfred Hitchcock Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock 7.9 121052
Detective Story 1951 103 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Wyler Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O’Donnell, George Macready 7.6 7003
Cry Danger 1951 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Parrish Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad, Regis Toomey 7.3 2096
The Enforcer 1951 87 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Bretaigne Windust
Raoul Walsh
Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts 7.3 4295
On Dangerous Ground 1951 82 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Nicholas Ray
Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross 7.3 6101
Chicago Calling 1951 75 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
John Reinhardt Dan Duryea, Mary Anderson, Gordon Gebert, Ross Elliott, Melinda Casey 7.2 205
The Prowler 1951 92 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Joseph Losey Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren, Emerson Treacy 7.2 2921
Fourteen Hours 1951 92 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Henry Hathaway Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget, Agnes Moorehead 7.1 2204
His Kind of Woman 1951 120 USA Action
Crime
Film-Noir
John Farrow
Richard Fleischer
Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw 7.1 3791
Storm Warning 1951 93 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Stuart Heisler Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders 7.1 1521
He Ran All the Way 1951 77 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Berry John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena Royle, Gladys George 7.0 1868
The House on Telegraph Hill 1951 93 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Wise Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Gordon Gebert 7.0 2534
The Mob 1951 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Parrish Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley, Otto Hulett, Matt Crowley 7.0 1294
Tomorrow Is Another Day 1951 90 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Felix E. Feist Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Ray Teal, Morris Ankrum 7.0 895
Another Man’s Poison 1951 90 UK Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Irving Rapper Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams, Anthony Steel, Barbara Murray 6.9 2236
Under the Gun 1951 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Ted Tetzlaff Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, John McIntire, Sam Jaffe, Shepperd Strudwick 6.8 115
M 1951 88 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Joseph Losey David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie 6.8 1713
The People Against O’Hara 1951 102 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Sturges Spencer Tracy, Pat O’Brien, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak, Eduardo Ciannelli 6.8 1154
Hollywood Story 1951 77 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Castle Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull, Fred Clark 6.7 391
Pickup 1951 78 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Hugo Haas Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon, Howland Chamberlain, Jo-Carroll Dennison 6.7 279
The Racket 1951 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Cromwell
Mel Ferrer
Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, William Talman, Ray Collins 6.7 2514
Roadblock 1951 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Harold Daniels Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore, Louis Jean Heydt, Milburn Stone 6.7 1018
The Scarf 1951 93 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Ewald André Dupont John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton, Emlyn Williams, Lloyd Gough 6.7 400
Thunder on the Hill 1951 84 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Douglas Sirk Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas, Anne Crawford, Philip Friend 6.7 615
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison 1951 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Crane Wilbur Steve Cochran, David Brian, Philip Carey, Ted de Corsia, Scott Forbes 6.6 225
No Questions Asked 1951 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Harold F. Kress Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy, Jean Hagen, Richard Anderson 6.6 572
Two of a Kind 1951 75 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Henry Levin Edmond O’Brien, Lizabeth Scott, Terry Moore, Alexander Knox, Griff Barnett 6.6 521
Cause for Alarm! 1951 74 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Tay Garnett Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore, Brad Morrow 6.5 1741
Lightning Strikes Twice 1951 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
King Vidor Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge, Zachary Scott, Frank Conroy 6.5 668
The Unknown Man 1951 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Thorpe Walter Pidgeon, Ann Harding, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle, Lewis Stone 6.5 365
The 13th Letter 1951 85 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
Otto Preminger Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael Rennie, Constance Smith, Françoise Rosay 6.4 345
The Fat Man 1951 78 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Castle J. Scott Smart, Julie London, Rock Hudson, Clinton Sundberg, Jayne Meadows 6.4 332
Iron Man 1951 82 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Joseph Pevney Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Rock Hudson, Joyce Holden 6.4 169
Never Trust a Gambler 1951 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Ralph Murphy Dane Clark, Cathy O’Donnell, Tom Drake, Jeff Corey, Myrna Dell 6.4 139
The Big Night 1951 75 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Joseph Losey John Drew Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring, Howard St. John, Dorothy Comingore 6.3 807
The Hoodlum 1951 61 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Max Nosseck Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan, Lisa Golm, Edward Tierney 6.3 818
The Raging Tide 1951 93 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
George Sherman Shelley Winters, Richard Conte, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford, Alex Nicol 6.3 139
Sirocco 1951 98 USA Action
Drama
Film-Noir
Curtis Bernhardt Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr 6.3 1910
Two Dollar Bettor 1951 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edward L. Cahn John Litel, Marie Windsor, Steve Brodie, Barbara Logan, Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer 6.3 139
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. 1951 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Gordon Douglas Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, James Millican, Richard Webb 6.2 655
F.B.I. Girl 1951 74 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Berke Cesar Romero, George Brent, Audrey Totter, Tom Drake, Raymond Burr 6.1 170
The Man with My Face 1951 79 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Edward Montagne Barry Nelson, Carole Mathews, Lynn Ainley, John Harvey, Jim Boles 6.1 305
The Strip 1951 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
László Kardos Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, James Craig, Kay Brown 6.0 559
The Basketball Fix 1951 65 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Felix E. Feist John Ireland, Marshall Thompson, Vanessa Brown, William Bishop, Hazel Brooks 5.6 135

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Ace in the Hole 1951 111 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Billy Wilder Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady 8.1 30541
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 122 USA Drama Elia Kazan Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond 8.0 97240
3 Strangers on a Train 1951 101 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Alfred Hitchcock Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock 7.9 121052
4 A Place in the Sun 1951 122 USA Drama
Romance
George Stevens Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle 7.8 19588
5 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 92 USA Drama
Sci-Fi
Robert Wise Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray 7.7 75381
6 Detective Story 1951 103 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Wyler Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O’Donnell, George Macready 7.6 7003
7 Westward the Women 1951 118 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
William A. Wellman Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire, Julie Bishop 7.6 2680
8 Alice in Wonderland 1951 75 USA Animation
Adventure
Family
Clyde Geronimi
Wilfred Jackson
Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna 7.4 125923
9 The Mating Season 1951 101 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
Mitchell Leisen Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling 7.4 1537
10 People Will Talk 1951 110 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak 7.4 5610

1952

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Narrow Margin 1952 71 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Fleischer Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Queenie Leonard, David Clarke 7.7 6846
Sudden Fear 1952 110 USA Film-Noir
Thriller
David Miller Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston 7.5 4973
Kansas City Confidential 1952 99 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Phil Karlson John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef 7.4 5948
Scandal Sheet 1952 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Phil Karlson Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek, Rosemary DeCamp, Henry O’Neill 7.4 1983
Deadline - U.S.A. 1952 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Brooks Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens 7.2 2998
The Sniper 1952 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edward Dmytryk Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, Frank Faylen 7.2 2806
Clash by Night 1952 105 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Fritz Lang Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, J. Carrol Naish 7.1 5534
Phone Call from a Stranger 1952 105 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Jean Negulesco Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill, Michael Rennie, Bette Davis, Keenan Wynn 7.0 2157
Diplomatic Courier 1952 97 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Henry Hathaway Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Hildegard Knef, Karl Malden 6.9 919
Don’t Bother to Knock 1952 76 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Roy Ward Baker Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney 6.9 5842
The Steel Trap 1952 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Andrew L. Stone Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale, Walter Sande, Eddie Marr 6.9 946
The Turning Point 1952 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Dieterle William Holden, Edmond O’Brien, Alexis Smith, Tom Tully, Ed Begley 6.8 868
Because of You 1952 95 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Joseph Pevney Loretta Young, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Frances Dee, Alexander Scourby 6.7 173
Beware, My Lovely 1952 77 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Harry Horner Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting, James Willmas 6.7 1563
The Sellout 1952 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Gerald Mayer Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter, Paula Raymond, Thomas Gomez 6.7 412
The Thief 1952 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Russell Rouse Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Harry Bronson, Rita Grapel, Rex O’Malley 6.7 871
Without Warning! 1952 77 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Arnold Laven Adam Williams, Meg Randall, Edward Binns, Harlan Warde, John Maxwell 6.7 405
Affair in Trinidad 1952 98 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Vincent Sherman Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis, Torin Thatcher 6.6 1961
The Captive City 1952 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Wise John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Marjorie Crossland, Victor Sutherland 6.6 917
Flesh and Fury 1952 83 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Joseph Pevney Tony Curtis, Jan Sterling, Mona Freeman, Wallace Ford, Connie Gilchrist 6.6 315
The Las Vegas Story 1952 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Stevenson Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Hoagy Carmichael, Brad Dexter 6.4 1131
Loan Shark 1952 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Seymour Friedman George Raft, Dorothy Hart, Paul Stewart, John Hoyt, Helen Westcott 6.3 414
Strange Fascination 1952 80 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Music
Hugo Haas Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Mona Barrie, Rick Vallin, Karen Sharpe 6.3 165
Night Without Sleep 1952 77 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Roy Ward Baker Linda Darnell, Gary Merrill, Hildegard Knef, Joyce Mackenzie, June Vincent 6.2 119
Talk About a Stranger 1952 65 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
David Bradley George Murphy, Nancy Reagan, Billy Gray, Lewis Stone, Kurt Kasznar 6.2 604
Confidence Girl 1952 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Andrew L. Stone Tom Conway, Hillary Brooke, Eddie Marr, Dan Riss, Walter Kingsford 6.1 171
Walk East on Beacon! 1952 98 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Alfred L. Werker George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore, Karel Stepanek, Louisa Horton 6.1 262
The Fighter 1952 78 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Herbert Kline Richard Conte, Vanessa Brown, Lee J. Cobb, Frank Silvera, Roberta Haynes 6.0 106
Hoodlum Empire 1952 98 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Kane Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler 5.9 245
Chained for Life 1952 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Harry L. Fraser Violet Hilton, Daisy Hilton, Mario Laval, Allen Jenkins, Patricia Wright 4.2 364

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Singin’ in the Rain 1952 103 USA Comedy
Musical
Romance
Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell 8.3 213152
2 Limelight 1952 137 USA Drama
Music
Romance
Charles Chaplin Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin 8.1 17670
3 High Noon 1952 85 USA Drama
Thriller
Western
Fred Zinnemann Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly 7.9 95573
4 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 118 USA Drama
Romance
Vincente Minnelli Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan 7.8 12941
5 5 Fingers 1952 108 USA Drama
Thriller
Joseph L. Mankiewicz James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden, Oskar Karlweis 7.7 4163
6 The Narrow Margin 1952 71 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Fleischer Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Queenie Leonard, David Clarke 7.7 6846
7 The Quiet Man 1952 129 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
John Ford John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen 7.7 33851
8 Come Back, Little Sheba 1952 99 USA Drama
Romance
Daniel Mann Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel, Philip Ober 7.5 4383
9 Scaramouche 1952 115 USA Action
Adventure
Comedy
George Sidney Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon 7.5 5467
10 Sudden Fear 1952 110 USA Film-Noir
Thriller
David Miller Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston 7.5 4973

1953

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Big Heat 1953 89 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Fritz Lang Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin 8.0 22911
Pickup on South Street 1953 80 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Samuel Fuller Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley 7.7 12580
Crime Wave 1953 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
André De Toth Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Ted de Corsia, Charles Bronson 7.4 3260
Angel Face 1953 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Otto Preminger Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall, Leon Ames 7.3 6637
The Man Between 1953 100 UK Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Carol Reed James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Geoffrey Toone, Aribert Wäscher 7.1 1576
Dangerous Crossing 1953 75 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Joseph M. Newman Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Max Showalter, Carl Betz, Mary Anderson 7.0 1693
Niagara 1953 92 USA Film-Noir
Thriller
Henry Hathaway Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O’Dea 7.0 14572
The Blue Gardenia 1953 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fritz Lang Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell 6.9 4406
Split Second 1953 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Dick Powell Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt 6.9 1349
The Bigamist 1953 80 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Ida Lupino Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Edmond O’Brien, Kenneth Tobey 6.8 2968
A Blueprint for Murder 1953 77 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Andrew L. Stone Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod, Jack Kruschen 6.8 1316
City That Never Sleeps 1953 90 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John H. Auer Gig Young, Mala Powers, William Talman, Edward Arnold, Chill Wills 6.8 1201
The Glass Wall 1953 82 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Maxwell Shane Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson, Douglas Spencer, Robin Raymond 6.8 615
Jeopardy 1953 69 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Sturges Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker, Lee Aaker, NA 6.8 1653
Wicked Woman 1953 77 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Russell Rouse Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton, Evelyn Scott, Robert Osterloh 6.8 700
Forbidden 1953 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Rudolph Maté Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru, Lyle Bettger, Marvin Miller, Victor Sen Yung 6.6 374
The Glass Web 1953 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Arnold Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe, Kathleen Hughes, Marcia Henderson, Richard Denning 6.6 328
Quand tu liras cette lettre 1953 104 France
Italy
Drama
Film-Noir
Jean-Pierre Melville Philippe Lemaire, Juliette Gréco, Yvonne Sanson, Irene Galter, Daniel Cauchy 6.6 572
Vice Squad 1953 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Arnold Laven Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K.T. Stevens, Porter Hall, Adam Williams 6.6 520
Vicki 1953 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Harry Horner Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid, Richard Boone, Max Showalter 6.5 869
Cry of the Hunted 1953 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph H. Lewis Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen, William Conrad, Mary Zavian 6.4 245
Man in the Dark 1953 70 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lew Landers Edmond O’Brien, Audrey Totter, Ted de Corsia, Horace McMahon, Nick Dennis 6.3 529
Count the Hours! 1953 76 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Don Siegel Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran, Adele Mara, Edgar Barrier 6.2 435
The Fake 1953 80 UK
USA
Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Godfrey Grayson Dennis O’Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams, Guy Middleton, John Laurie 6.2 266
I, the Jury 1953 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Harry Essex Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, Alan Reed 6.1 318
The Joe Louis Story 1953 88 USA Biography
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Gordon Coley Wallace, Paul Stewart, Hilda Simms, James Edwards, John Marley 6.1 284
Time Bomb 1953 72 UK
USA
Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Ted Tetzlaff Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Harcourt Williams, Victor Maddern 6.1 712
Second Chance 1953 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Rudolph Maté Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance, Sandro Giglio, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.  6.0 867
Jamaica Run 1953 92 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis R. Foster Ray Milland, Arlene Dahl, Wendell Corey, Patric Knowles, Kasey Rogers 5.9 102
The Limping Man 1953 76 UK Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Cy Endfield Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley, Leslie Phillips, Hélène Cordet 5.8 514
No Escape 1953 76 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Charles Bennett Lew Ayres, Sonny Tufts, Marjorie Steele, Lewis Martin, Gertrude Michael 5.6 287
Violated 1953 78 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Walter Strate William Holland, Lili Dawn, Mitchell Kowall, Vicki Carlson, William Martel 5.3 104
Girl on the Run 1953 64 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Arthur J. Beckhard
Joseph Lee
Richard Coogan, Rosemary Pettit, Frank Albertson, Harry Bannister, Edith King 5.2 143

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 I Love Lucy 1953 80 USA Comedy Marc Daniels
Edward Sedgwick
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Ann Doran 8.1 339
2 The Big Heat 1953 89 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Fritz Lang Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin 8.0 22911
3 Roman Holiday 1953 118 USA Comedy
Romance
William Wyler Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams 8.0 124684
4 Stalag 17 1953 120 USA Comedy
Drama
War
Billy Wilder William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck 8.0 50292
5 Pickup on South Street 1953 80 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Samuel Fuller Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley 7.7 12580
6 From Here to Eternity 1953 118 USA Drama
Romance
War
Fred Zinnemann Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra 7.6 42401
7 Shane 1953 118 USA Drama
Western
George Stevens Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance 7.6 36277
8 The Band Wagon 1953 112 USA Comedy
Musical
Romance
Vincente Minnelli Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan 7.5 9760
9 Little Fugitive 1953 80 USA Drama
Family
Ray Ashley
Morris Engel
Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams, Will Lee, Charlie Moss 7.5 2414
10 The Naked Spur 1953 91 USA Thriller
Western
Anthony Mann James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, Millard Mitchell 7.4 9880

1954

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Human Desire 1954 91 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Fritz Lang Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case 7.1 4277
Pushover 1954 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Quine Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malone, E.G. Marshall 7.1 2557
Riot in Cell Block 11 1954 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Don Siegel Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon, Robert Osterloh 7.0 1608
Drive a Crooked Road 1954 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Quine Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly, Harry Landers 6.9 1007
Shield for Murder 1954 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Howard W. Koch
Edmond O’Brien
Edmond O’Brien, Marla English, John Agar, Emile Meyer, Carolyn Jones 6.9 1051
Suddenly 1954 77 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis Allen Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Kim Charney 6.8 5935
Black Widow 1954 95 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Mystery
Nunnally Johnson Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner 6.7 2227
Down Three Dark Streets 1954 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Arnold Laven Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer, Marisa Pavan, Max Showalter 6.7 785
Dragnet 1954 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Webb Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Ann Robinson, Stacy Harris 6.7 776
Private Hell 36 1954 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Don Siegel Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Malone 6.7 1234
Witness to Murder 1954 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Roy Rowland Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Jesse White, Harry Shannon 6.7 2310
Loophole 1954 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Harold D. Schuster Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Charles McGraw, Don Haggerty, Mary Beth Hughes 6.6 261
Rogue Cop 1954 92 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Roy Rowland Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft, Steve Forrest, Anne Francis 6.6 818
Black Tuesday 1954 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Hugo Fregonese Edward G. Robinson, Jean Parker, Peter Graves, Milburn Stone, Warren Stevens 6.5 297
Cry Vengeance 1954 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Mark Stevens Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Skip Homeier, Joan Vohs, Douglas Kennedy 6.5 454
Naked Alibi 1954 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jerry Hopper Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry, Marcia Henderson, Max Showalter 6.5 786
The Other Woman 1954 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Hugo Haas Hugo Haas, Cleo Moore, Lance Fuller, Lucille Barkley, John Qualen 6.5 169
Highway Dragnet 1954 71 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Nathan Juran Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley, Mary Beth Hughes 6.3 534
The Miami Story 1954 75 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fred F. Sears Barry Sullivan, Luther Adler, John Baer, Adele Jergens, Beverly Garland 6.3 211
Bait 1954 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Hugo Haas Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, John Agar, Emmett Lynn, Bruno VeSota 6.0 230
Make Haste to Live 1954 90 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
William A. Seiter Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally, Mary Murphy, Edgar Buchanan, John Howard 6.0 209
Dangerous Mission 1954 75 USA Action
Film-Noir
Mystery
Louis King Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix, Vincent Price, Betta St. John 5.8 586
World for Ransom 1954 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Aldrich Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patric Knowles, Reginald Denny, Nigel Bruce 5.8 370
The Human Jungle 1954 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph M. Newman Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey, Lamont Johnson, Patrick Waltz 5.7 134
A Bullet Is Waiting 1954 90 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Farrow Rory Calhoun, Jean Simmons, Stephen McNally, Brian Aherne, NA 5.5 262
Gorilla at Large 1954 83 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Harmon Jones Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Burr, Charlotte Austin 5.4 521
Jail Bait 1954 71 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edward D. Wood Jr.  Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller, Herbert Rawlinson, Steve Reeves, Clancy Malone 3.6 2309

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Rear Window 1954 112 USA Mystery
Thriller
Alfred Hitchcock James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr 8.4 432390
2 Dial M for Murder 1954 105 USA Crime
Thriller
Alfred Hitchcock Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson 8.2 153300
3 On the Waterfront 1954 108 USA Crime
Drama
Thriller
Elia Kazan Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning 8.1 138516
4 The Caine Mutiny 1954 124 USA Drama
War
Edward Dmytryk Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis 7.7 23931
5 Johnny Guitar 1954 110 USA Drama
Western
Nicholas Ray Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond 7.7 15198
6 Sabrina 1954 113 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
Billy Wilder Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, John Williams 7.7 57694
7 A Star Is Born 1954 154 USA Drama
Musical
Romance
George Cukor Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan 7.6 15391
8 White Christmas 1954 120 USA Comedy
Musical
Romance
Michael Curtiz Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger 7.6 31309
9 Executive Suite 1954 104 USA Drama Robert Wise William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon 7.4 3507
10 Salt of the Earth 1954 94 USA Drama
History
Herbert J. Biberman Will Geer, David Bauer, David Sarvis, Mervin Williams, Rosaura Revueltas 7.4 3002

1955

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Night of the Hunter 1955 92 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Charles Laughton Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden 8.0 80215
Kiss Me Deadly 1955 106 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Robert Aldrich Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Wesley Addy 7.6 17998
The Desperate Hours 1955 112 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Wyler Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin 7.5 8617
The Big Combo 1955 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph H. Lewis Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace, Robert Middleton 7.4 6368
The Phenix City Story 1955 100 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Phil Karlson John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews, Lenka Peterson 7.2 2282
Crashout 1955 89 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis R. Foster William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans 7.0 463
Illegal 1955 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis Allen Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Dekker 7.0 1683
New York Confidential 1955 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Russell Rouse Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft, J. Carrol Naish 7.0 557
Violent Saturday 1955 90 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Fleischer Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Tommy Noonan 6.9 1994
The Big Knife 1955 111 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Aldrich Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger 6.8 3245
Dementia 1955 56 USA Film-Noir
Horror
Mystery
John Parker Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman, Richard Barron, Ed Hinkle 6.8 1760
House of Bamboo 1955 102 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Samuel Fuller Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter 6.8 2945
Six Bridges to Cross 1955 96 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Pevney Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams, Jay C. Flippen, Sal Mineo 6.8 417
Big House, U.S.A. 1955 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Howard W. Koch Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, William Talman, Lon Chaney Jr.  6.7 714
Not as a Stranger 1955 135 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Stanley Kramer Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford 6.7 1645
Finger Man 1955 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Harold D. Schuster Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Timothy Carey, John Cliff 6.6 285
Killer’s Kiss 1955 67 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Stanley Kubrick Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Jerry Jarrett, Mike Dana 6.6 20806
The Square Jungle 1955 86 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Jerry Hopper Tony Curtis, Pat Crowley, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Kelly, Jim Backus 6.6 213
Tight Spot 1955 97 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Phil Karlson Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lucy Marlow, Lorne Greene 6.6 1393
Chicago Syndicate 1955 84 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fred F. Sears Dennis O’Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart, Xavier Cugat, Allison Hayes 6.5 193
The Naked Street 1955 84 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Maxwell Shane Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, Peter Graves, Else Bäck 6.5 685
Women’s Prison 1955 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis Seiler Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter, Phyllis Thaxter 6.5 704
Female on the Beach 1955 97 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Pevney Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling, Cecil Kellaway, Judith Evelyn 6.4 1008
Hell on Frisco Bay 1955 99 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Frank Tuttle Alan Ladd, Edward G. Robinson, Joanne Dru, William Demarest, Paul Stewart 6.4 451
I Died a Thousand Times 1955 109 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Stuart Heisler Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez 6.4 873
Joe MacBeth 1955 90 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Ken Hughes Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano, Grégoire Aslan, Sidney James 6.4 157
Unchained 1955 75 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Hall Bartlett Elroy ‘Crazylegs’ Hirsch, Barbara Hale, Chester Morris, Todd Duncan, Johnny Johnston 6.4 136
Storm Fear 1955 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Cornel Wilde Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea, Lee Grant, David Stollery 6.4 484
No Man’s Woman 1955 70 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Franklin Adreon Marie Windsor, John Archer, Patric Knowles, Nancy Gates, Jil Jarmyn 6.3 346
Shack Out on 101 1955 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edward Dein Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn, Lee Marvin, Whit Bissell 6.3 609
Sudden Danger 1955 65 USA Drama
Crime
Film-Noir
Hubert Cornfield Bill Elliott, Tom Drake, Beverly Garland, Dayton Lummis, Lyle Talbot 6.2 101
Flame of the Islands 1955 90 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edward Ludwig Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff, Zachary Scott, Kurt Kasznar, Barbara O’Neil 6.1 137
Murder Is My Beat 1955 77 USA Film-Noir
Mystery
Edgar G. Ulmer Paul Langton, Barbara Payton, Robert Shayne, Selena Royle, Roy Gordon 6.1 483
The Night Holds Terror 1955 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Andrew L. Stone Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, John Cassavetes, David Cross 6.1 444
A Bullet for Joey 1955 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis Allen Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Audrey Totter, George Dolenz, Peter van Eyck 6.0 887
The Crooked Web 1955 77 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Nathan Juran Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning, John Mylong, Harry Lauter 6.0 246
Hell’s Island 1955 84 USA Adventure
Drama
Film-Noir
Phil Karlson John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan, Eduardo Noriega, Arnold Moss 6.0 289
5 Against the House 1955 84 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Phil Karlson Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore, Kerwin Mathews 5.9 1197
New Orleans Uncensored 1955 76 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Castle Arthur Franz, Beverly Garland, Helene Stanton, Michael Ansara, Stacy Harris 5.9 217
A Life at Stake 1955 78 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Paul Guilfoyle Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglass Dumbrille, Claudia Barrett, Jane Darwell 5.8 558
The Big Bluff 1955 71 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
W. Lee Wilder John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Rosemarie Stack, Eve Miller 5.8 400
Female Jungle 1955 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Bruno VeSota Lawrence Tierney, John Carradine, Jayne Mansfield, Burt Kaiser, Kathleen Crowley 5.6 354
Bedevilled 1955 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Mitchell Leisen
Richard Thorpe
Anne Baxter, Steve Forrest, Simone Renant, Maurice Teynac, Robert Christopher 4.9 227

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 92 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Charles Laughton Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden 8.0 80215
2 East of Eden 1955 118 USA Drama Elia Kazan Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos 7.9 39384
3 The Court Jester 1955 101 USA Adventure
Comedy
Family
Melvin Frank
Norman Panama
Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker 7.9 11368
4 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 81 USA Crime
Drama
Mystery
John Sturges Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan 7.7 18788
5 Marty 1955 90 USA Drama
Romance
Delbert Mann Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Augusta Ciolli, Joe Mantell 7.7 20941
6 Mister Roberts 1955 123 USA Comedy
Drama
War
John Ford
Mervyn LeRoy
Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer 7.7 15053
7 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 111 USA Drama Nicholas Ray James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran 7.7 81625
8 All That Heaven Allows 1955 89 USA Drama
Romance
Douglas Sirk Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey 7.6 12957
9 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 106 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Robert Aldrich Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Wesley Addy 7.6 17998
10 The Desperate Hours 1955 112 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Wyler Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin 7.5 8617

1956

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
The Killing 1956 84 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Stanley Kubrick Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia 8.0 79652
The Harder They Fall 1956 109 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Mark Robson Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer 7.5 6961
The Wrong Man 1956 105 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Alfred Hitchcock Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper 7.4 24818
Nightfall 1956 78 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jacques Tourneur Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, Jocelyn Brando, James Gregory 7.2 3204
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fritz Lang Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Arthur Franz, Philip Bourneuf 7.0 4567
Ransom! 1956 109 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Alex Segal Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen, Juano Hernandez, Robert Keith 7.0 1763
While the City Sleeps 1956 100 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fritz Lang Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell 7.0 5243
Death of a Scoundrel 1956 119 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Charles Martin George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Victor Jory, Nancy Gates 6.9 780
The Scarlet Hour 1956 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Michael Curtiz Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance, James Gregory, Elaine Stritch 6.9 351
Slightly Scarlet 1956 99 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Allan Dwan John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, Kent Taylor, Ted de Corsia 6.8 892
World in My Corner 1956 82 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Jesse Hibbs Audie Murphy, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow, John McIntire, Tommy Rall 6.8 157
A Kiss Before Dying 1956 94 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Mystery
Gerd Oswald Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward, Mary Astor 6.7 3194
Time Table 1956 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Mark Stevens Mark Stevens, King Calder, Felicia Farr, Marianne Stewart, Wesley Addy 6.7 625
The Killer Is Loose 1956 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Budd Boetticher Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Alan Hale Jr., Michael Pate 6.6 1537
Hot Cars 1956 60 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Don McDougall John Bromfield, Joi Lansing, Mark Dana, Carol Shannon, Ralph Clanton 6.5 223
Nightmare 1956 89 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Maxwell Shane Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell, Virginia Christine, Rhys Williams 6.5 624
Please Murder Me! 1956 78 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Peter Godfrey Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran, John Dehner, Lamont Johnson 6.5 978
Crime of Passion 1956 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Gerd Oswald Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Virginia Grey 6.5 1909
The Boss 1956 89 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Byron Haskin John Payne, William Bishop, Gloria McGehee, Doe Avedon, Roy Roberts 6.4 248
The Unguarded Moment 1956 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Harry Keller Esther Williams, George Nader, John Saxon, Edward Andrews, Les Tremayne 6.4 339
A Woman’s Devotion 1956 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Paul Henreid Ralph Meeker, Janice Rule, Paul Henreid, Rosenda Monteros, Fanny Schiller 6.4 205
The Price of Fear 1956 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Abner Biberman Merle Oberon, Lex Barker, Charles Drake, Gia Scala, Warren Stevens 6.3 362
The Houston Story 1956 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Castle Gene Barry, Barbara Hale, Edward Arnold, Paul Richards, Jeanne Cooper 6.2 174
Julie 1956 99 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Andrew L. Stone Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy, Jack Kelly 6.2 1409
Over-Exposed 1956 80 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Lewis Seiler Cleo Moore, Richard Crenna, Isobel Elsom, Raymond Greenleaf, Constance Towers 6.2 319
5 Steps to Danger 1956 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Henry S. Kesler Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer, Richard Gaines, Charles Davis 6.2 544
A Cry in the Night 1956 75 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Frank Tuttle Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr, Richard Anderson 6.1 798
Soho Incident 1956 76 UK Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Vernon Sewell Faith Domergue, Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson, Martin Benson, Robert Arden 6.1 118
The Wild Party 1956 91 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Harry Horner Anthony Quinn, Carol Ohmart, Arthur Franz, Jay Robinson, Kathryn Grant 6.1 224
The Come On 1956 83 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Russell Birdwell Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden, John Hoyt, Jesse White, Wally Cassell 6.0 146
Miami Exposé 1956 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fred F. Sears Lee J. Cobb, Patricia Medina, Edward Arnold, Michael Granger, Eleanore Tanin 6.0 131
Man in the Vault 1956 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Andrew V. McLaglen William Campbell, Karen Sharpe, Anita Ekberg, Berry Kroeger, Paul Fix 5.9 367
Accused of Murder 1956 74 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Kane David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens 5.8 116
Crime Against Joe 1956 70 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Lee Sholem John Bromfield, Julie London, Henry Calvin, Patricia Blair, Joel Ashley 5.8 225
Strange Intruder 1956 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Irving Rapper Edmund Purdom, Ida Lupino, Ann Harding, Jacques Bergerac, Gloria Talbott 5.8 100
Three Bad Sisters 1956 76 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Gilbert Kay Marla English, Kathleen Hughes, Sara Shane, John Bromfield, Jess Barker 5.8 156
The Steel Jungle 1956 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Walter Doniger Perry Lopez, Beverly Garland, Walter Abel, Ted de Corsia, Kenneth Tobey 5.7 101
Rumble on the Docks 1956 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Fred F. Sears James Darren, Laurie Carroll, Michael Granger, Jerry Janger, Robert Blake 5.6 152
Flight to Hong Kong 1956 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph M. Newman Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush, Dolores Donlon, Soo Yong, Pat Conway 5.5 139
A Strange Adventure 1956 70 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Witney Joan Evans, Ben Cooper, Marla English, Jan Merlin, Nick Adams 5.4 112
Girls in Prison 1956 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edward L. Cahn Richard Denning, Joan Taylor, Adele Jergens, Helen Gilbert, Lance Fuller 5.2 178
Fright 1956 68 USA Film-Noir
Horror
W. Lee Wilder Eric Fleming, Nancy Malone, Frank Marth, Humphrey Davis, Dean L. Almquist 5.0 115
Walk the Dark Street 1956 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Wyott Ordung Chuck Connors, Don Ross, Regina Gleason, Vonne Godfrey, Eddie Kafafian 5.0 183
The Violent Years 1956 65 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
William Morgan Jean Moorhead, Barbara Weeks, Art Millan, Theresa Hancock, Joanne Cangi 3.2 1292

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 The Killing 1956 84 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Stanley Kubrick Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia 8.0 79652
2 The Searchers 1956 119 USA Adventure
Drama
Western
John Ford John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood 7.9 78473
3 The Ten Commandments 1956 220 USA Adventure
Drama
Cecil B. DeMille Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo 7.8 62358
4 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 80 USA Drama
Horror
Sci-Fi
Don Siegel Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones 7.7 43866
5 Patterns 1956 83 USA Drama Fielder Cook Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson 7.7 2134
6 Bigger Than Life 1956 95 USA Drama Nicholas Ray James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert F. Simon, Christopher Olsen 7.6 6536
7 Giant 1956 201 USA Drama
Western
George Stevens Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers 7.6 33284
8 The Bad Seed 1956 129 USA Drama
Horror
Thriller
Mervyn LeRoy Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden 7.5 12416
9 The Catered Affair 1956 94 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
Richard Brooks Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Rod Taylor 7.5 2818
10 The Harder They Fall 1956 109 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Sport
Mark Robson Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer 7.5 6961

1957

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Sweet Smell of Success 1957 96 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Alexander Mackendrick Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Jeff Donnell 8.1 27248
Appointment with a Shadow 1957 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Carlson George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith, Virginia Field, Frank DeKova 7.1 120
The Midnight Story 1957 90 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Pevney Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Jay C. Flippen, Argentina Brunetti 6.9 578
Mister Cory 1957 92 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Blake Edwards Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford, Kathryn Grant, William Reynolds 6.9 436
Plunder Road 1957 72 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Hubert Cornfield Gene Raymond, Jeanne Cooper, Wayne Morris, Elisha Cook Jr., Stafford Repp 6.9 919
The Strange One 1957 100 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Garfein Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Peter Mark Richman, Arthur Storch, Paul E. Richards 6.9 642
The Brothers Rico 1957 92 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Phil Karlson Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates, James Darren 6.8 870
Slaughter on 10th Avenue 1957 103 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Arnold Laven Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Julie Adams, Walter Matthau 6.8 339
The Tattered Dress 1957 93 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jack Arnold Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson, Gail Russell, Elaine Stewart 6.7 400
The Burglar 1957 90 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Paul Wendkos Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers, Peter Capell, Mickey Shaughnessy 6.6 1216
The Garment Jungle 1957 88 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Vincent Sherman
Robert Aldrich
Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone, Valerie French 6.6 534
The Big Caper 1957 84 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Robert Stevens Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory, Robert H. Harris, Roxanne Arlen 6.5 260
Slander 1957 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Roy Rowland Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran, Marjorie Rambeau, Richard Eyer 6.4 325
Hell Bound 1957 69 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William J. Hole Jr.  John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman, Margo Woode, George E. Mather 6.4 227
House of Numbers 1957 90 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Russell Rouse Jack Palance, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt, Barbara Lang, NA 6.4 444
Hit and Run 1957 87 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Hugo Haas Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Vince Edwards, Dolores Reed, Mara Lea 6.3 147
Istanbul 1957 84 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Pevney Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley, Torin Thatcher, Leif Erickson 6.3 422
The Shadow on the Window 1957 76 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Asher Philip Carey, Betty Garrett, John Drew Barrymore, Corey Allen, Gerald Sarracini 6.2 309
Death in Small Doses 1957 79 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph M. Newman Peter Graves, Mala Powers, Chuck Connors, Merry Anders, Roy Engel 6.2 208
Tip on a Dead Jockey 1957 98 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Richard Thorpe Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Gia Scala, Martin Gabel, Marcel Dalio 6.2 286
Hot Summer Night 1957 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
David Friedkin Leslie Nielsen, Colleen Miller, Edward Andrews, Jay C. Flippen, James Best 6.1 282
Tous peuvent me tuer 1957 102 France
Italy
Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Henri Decoin François Périer, Peter van Eyck, Anouk Aimée, Darío Moreno, Eleonora Rossi Drago 6.0 109
Short Cut to Hell 1957 89 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
James Cagney William Bishop, Robert Ivers, Georgann Johnson, Yvette Vickers, Murvyn Vye 5.8 216
Affair in Havana 1957 77 Cuba
USA
Crime
Film-Noir
Laslo Benedek John Cassavetes, Raymond Burr, Sara Shane, Lilia Lazo, Sergio Pena 5.7 150
Teenage Doll 1957 71 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Roger Corman June Kenney, Fay Spain, John Brinkley, Colette Jackson, Barbara Wilson 5.7 228
The Unholy Wife 1957 94 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
John Farrow Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon, Beulah Bondi, Marie Windsor 5.7 393
The Girl in Black Stockings 1957 75 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Howard W. Koch Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren, John Dehner, Ron Randell 5.5 646
The Tijuana Story 1957 73 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
László Kardos Rodolfo Acosta, James Darren, Robert McQueeney, Jean Willes, Joy Stoner 5.3 108

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 12 Angry Men 1957 96 USA Crime
Drama
Sidney Lumet Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman 8.9 668473
2 Paths of Glory 1957 88 USA Drama
War
Stanley Kubrick Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris 8.4 172671
3 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 116 USA Crime
Drama
Mystery
Billy Wilder Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams 8.4 104524
4 A Face in the Crowd 1957 126 USA Drama
Music
Elia Kazan Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick 8.2 13458
5 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 96 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Alexander Mackendrick Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Jeff Donnell 8.1 27248
6 3:10 to Yuma 1957 92 USA Drama
Thriller
Western
Delmer Daves Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones 7.6 17797
7 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 81 USA Horror
Sci-Fi
Jack Arnold Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey 7.6 15583
8 An Affair to Remember 1957 115 USA Drama
Musical
Romance
Leo McCarey Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt 7.5 27148
9 The Enemy Below 1957 98 USA Action
Adventure
Drama
Dick Powell Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel, Russell Collins 7.5 9611
10 The D.I. 1957 106 USA Drama Jack Webb Jack Webb, Don Dubbins, Jackie Loughery, Lin McCarthy, Monica Lewis 7.3 892

1958

Film Noir Productions

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
Touch of Evil 1958 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Orson Welles Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff 8.0 96864
The Lineup 1958 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Don Siegel Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Richard Jaeckel, Mary LaRoche, William Leslie 7.3 2705
Murder by Contract 1958 81 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Irving Lerner Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi, Caprice Toriel, Michael Granger 7.3 2811
Party Girl 1958 99 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Nicholas Ray Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith 7.0 2663
The Case Against Brooklyn 1958 82 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Paul Wendkos Darren McGavin, Margaret Hayes, Warren Stevens, Peggy McCay, Tol Avery 6.8 240
Thunder Road 1958 92 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Arthur Ripley Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon, Keely Smith, Trevor Bardette 6.7 2992
Cry Terror! 1958 96 USA Crime
Film-Noir
Thriller
Andrew L. Stone James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger, Neville Brand, Angie Dickinson 6.6 929
Cop Hater 1958 75 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
William Berke Robert Loggia, Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Ellen Parker, Shirley Ballard, Russell Hardie 6.4 397
The Gun Runners 1958 83 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Don Siegel Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert, Patricia Owens, Everett Sloane, Richard Jaeckel 6.4 563
The Restless Years 1958 86 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Helmut Käutner John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Teresa Wright, James Whitmore, Luana Patten 6.4 181
The Fearmakers 1958 85 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Jacques Tourneur Dana Andrews, Dick Foran, Marilee Earle, Veda Ann Borg, Kelly Thordsen 6.1 539
The Man Who Died Twice 1958 70 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Joseph Kane Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Mike Mazurki, Gerald Milton, Richard Karlan 6.1 103
The Female Animal 1958 84 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Romance
Harry Keller Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling, George Nader, Jerry Paris 6.0 328
The Bonnie Parker Story 1958 79 USA Biography
Crime
Film-Noir
William Witney Dorothy Provine, Jack Hogan, Richard Bakalyan, Joe Turkel, William Stevens 6.0 300
Girls on the Loose 1958 78 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Paul Henreid Mara Corday, Lita Milan, Barbara Bostock, Peter Mark Richman, Joyce Barker 5.9 161
Screaming Mimi 1958 79 USA Drama
Film-Noir
Thriller
Gerd Oswald Anita Ekberg, Philip Carey, Gypsy Rose Lee, Harry Townes, Linda Cherney 5.9 518
Hong Kong Confidential 1958 67 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Edward L. Cahn Gene Barry, Beverly Tyler, Allison Hayes, Ed Kemmer, Michael Pate 5.5 136

Top 10 Contemporaneous Films of all Genres

Title Year Length Country Genres Director Actors Ave. Score No. Votes
1 Vertigo 1958 128 USA Mystery
Romance
Thriller
Alfred Hitchcock James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones 8.3 352786
2 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 108 USA Drama Richard Brooks Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson 8.0 43979
3 Touch of Evil 1958 95 USA Crime
Drama
Film-Noir
Orson Welles Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff 8.0 96864
4 Auntie Mame 1958 143 USA Comedy
Drama
Romance
Morton DaCosta Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith 7.9 10152
5 The Big Country 1958 166 USA Romance
Western
William Wyler Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives 7.9 15338
6 A Time to Love and a Time to Die 1958 132 USA Drama
Romance
War
Douglas Sirk John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore, Keenan Wynn 7.7 2745
7 The Defiant Ones 1958 96 USA Crime
Drama
Stanley Kramer Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Charles McGraw, Lon Chaney Jr.  7.6 13226
8 No Time for Sergeants 1958 119 USA Comedy
War
Mervyn LeRoy Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton, Howard Smith 7.6 3588
9 I Want to Live! 1958 120 USA Biography
Crime
Drama
Robert Wise Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel, Wesley Lau 7.4 5589
10 The Last Hurrah 1958 121 USA Comedy
Drama
John Ford Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O’Brien, Basil Rathbone 7.4 2907